Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	118% 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.
Boot Drive	68.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors, , ,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20141017
Uptime	9.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 02 '18 at 09:09
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	Memory 82.8 1-Core 112 2-Core 208 76% 134 Pts	4-Core 371 8-Core 578 59% 475 Pts	64-Core 609 38% 609 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	118% Outstanding	Lighting 158 Reflection 189 Parallax 163 128% 170 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 159 Splatting 126 112% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 155GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7907 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 779 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 29 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 57 184684576795 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 7006060164 (F7) Unknown 100 100 218979117 (F8) Unknown 100 100 80205226 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3576 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	87% Excellent	Read 474 Write 336 Mixed 336 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 79.3 4K Mixed 26.4 117% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 46.2 97% 200 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 104%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: 501ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 117 169918358 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -136777528463895 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1710 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 142 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 82 42955046937 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 169918358 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 169918358 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 169918358 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20710 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16052 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16052 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9732	68.4% Good	Read 478 Write 129 Mixed 195 58% 267 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 19.4 124% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 114 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 43.1 55% 96.5 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 87%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 511GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 173 2133 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18760 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 39 39 45080 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1724 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18640 (C2) HDA temperature 115 102 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	77.1% Very good	Read 137 Write 132 Mixed 123 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.19 93% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 109%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 412GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 207 166 4650 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15175 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25226 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1611 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 81 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15093 (C2) HDA temperature 121 113 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.1% Excellent	Read 150 Write 132 Mixed 131 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.79 4K Mixed 0.25 108% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 112%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 222GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 135 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11526 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 20 20 58564 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1974 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 189 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11336 (C2) HDA temperature 113 78 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.7% Above average	Read 73.7 Write 113 Mixed 110 75% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.27 89% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GB 10,124 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	48.4% Average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 17.8 MC Mixed 15.4 48% 16.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 15.6 SC Mixed 13.4 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 75.5 53% 75.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 62%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	704x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	211x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	268x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	72x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	52x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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