Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (89th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 11 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	24.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Jul 13 '16 at 16:03
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing way above expectations (89^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 118 2-Core 237 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 465 60% 454 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 370-$153 39,178 User benchmarks, average bench 21% XFX(1682 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1035.1001 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	24.9% Poor	Lighting 28.7 Reflection 35.4 Parallax 39.2 23% 34.4 fps	MRender 31.3 Gravity 26.2 Splatting 41.3 28% 32.9 fps
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 24.9% Great: 23%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 75GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1171 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 398 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 63 52 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 70 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1563288139	112% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 407 Mixed 415 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 40.2 176% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 106 133% 237 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 878GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 116873184 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20717638 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1191 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 387 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 55 538509343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 131 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15775 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 81604378655 (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 33127082755139 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2510974454 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28177835126	98.5% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 153 Mixed 156 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.24 83% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 112%
Seagate Momentus 5400.6 2.5" 500GB-$16 83,084 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 466GB free Firmware: 0002BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 221666106 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10173 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 145144348 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21442 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1482 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 4295032995 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 46 572194847 (BF) G-sense error rate 92 92 17083 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 475738 (C2) HDA temperature 31 54 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 48 221666106 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	39.3% Below average	Read 71.5 Write 65.4 Mixed 66.7 51% 67.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.27 67% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 39.3% Great: 43%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 411GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 171 3866 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4701 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6595 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4519 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 264 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4436 (C2) HDA temperature 111 98 36 (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	70.6% Very good	Read 150 Write 95.4 Mixed 109 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.37 110% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 78,181 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	63% Good	MC Read 22.1 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 20.3 62% 21.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 19.2 52% 18.3 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 62%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

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