Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	6.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 11 '17 at 01:47
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80% Very good	Memory 90.2 1-Core 111 2-Core 220 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 431 55% 415 Pts	64-Core 427 26% 427 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63.2% Good	Lighting 79 Reflection 85.2 Parallax 77.6 64% 80.6 fps	MRender 81.5 Gravity 74.5 Splatting 69.3 61% 75.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ ARC 100 240GB-$120 11,799 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 3GB free Firmware: 1.00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20723 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 50 (AB) Unknown 100 100 83229520 (AE) Unknown 100 100 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 65 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 98 98 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5996 (F2) Unknown 100 100 4806 (F9) Unknown 100 100 329472371	87.9% Excellent	Read 458 Write 436 Mixed 435 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 13 123% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 27.7 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 15 63% 130 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 101%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 750GB (2010)-$70 21,848 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 340GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0001SDM5 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 8008 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1194 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 90 60 1293002266 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 52026 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 581 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 52 521863196 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 16 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 96 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 63 63 75726 (C2) HDA temperature 28 48 30064771100 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 108 99 8008 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 44766444178082 (F1) Unknown 100 253 541974294 (F2) Unknown 100 253 840420438 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	39.2% Below average	Read 79.2 Write 57.8 Mixed 44.1 45% 60.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.25 48% 0.34 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 21,220 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27.6% Poor	MC Read 8.4 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 8 24% 8.5 GB/s	SC Read 7.4 SC Write 8.8 SC Mixed 9.1 24% 8.43 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 27.6% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	694x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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Total price: $823

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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