Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	120% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 18 '17 at 05:12
Run Duration	226 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 126 2-Core 255 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 505 69% 513 Pts	64-Core 498 31% 498 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2730 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Lighting 164 Reflection 166 Parallax 156 134% 162 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 151 Splatting 119 107% 132 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8430 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1208 (B1) Unknown 98 98 33 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 9 (EB) Unknown 99 99 120 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13356477676
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
SanDisk Extreme II 120GB-$130 2,462 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 65GB free Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 17526 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4379 (A6) Unknown 100 100 57 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 255 (A9) Unknown 100 100 94 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 152 (AE) Unknown 100 100 193 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 151 648540913690 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1286 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 19291 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8788 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13375 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	89.7% Excellent	Read 469 Write 309 Mixed 350 83% 376 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 24.9 130% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 60.8 113% 225 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 101%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 64GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	131% Outstanding	Read 702 Write 523 Mixed 568 133% 598 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 35.4 176% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 505 DQ Write 324 DQ Mixed 168 192% 332 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 236%
Seagate ST3250620AS 250GB-$149 6,960 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 197GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 97 85 222202211 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18555 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 316384838 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 42032 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 10948 (BB) vendor-specific 48 48 52 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 48 471531548 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 73014444060 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 61 56 143260049 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	29.4% Poor	Read 62.8 Write 39.2 Mixed 49.4 38% 50.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.28 74% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 43%
WD My Passport 259D 2TB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 929GB free, PID 259d Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 37.3 Write 33.7 Mixed 29.9 42% 33.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.19 56% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 18,444 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 24.6 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 24.9 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 71%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	278x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	109x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	75x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	53x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	14x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16