Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	130% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 31 '17 at 15:21
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 94.4 1-Core 109 2-Core 210 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 584 58% 475 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 107 Parallax 96.2 90% 104 fps	MRender 95.2 Gravity 97.5 Splatting 98.3 80% 97 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$43 14,860 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 174GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Read 737 Write 673 Mixed 736 160% 716 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 77.5 4K Mixed 43.7 145% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 159 165% 271 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 210%
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 50GB free Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4369 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 799 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 1239 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7340228 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 49 (C2) HDA temperature 62 61 167504773158 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 26737 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21543 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6498 (F4) Unknown 100 100 112 (F5) Unknown 100 100 196 (F6) Unknown 100 100 7730176	91.5% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 487 Mixed 498 111% 496 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 13.6 99% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 295 DQ Mixed 14.5 89% 204 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 111%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 172 4175 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3120 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4407 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 792 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9968 (C2) HDA temperature 111 111 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	70.5% Very good	Read 133 Write 113 Mixed 118 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.22 81% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GB 48,796 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	32.2% Below average	MC Read 10.2 MC Write 10.5 MC Mixed 9.2 28% 9.97 GB/s	SC Read 9.3 SC Write 10.6 SC Mixed 9.5 28% 9.8 GB/s	Latency 58.8 68% 58.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 32.2% Great: 63%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,217x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	96x

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Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	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