Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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.

Very high background CPU (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160303
Uptime	15.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '16 at 12:29
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	49%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5775C-$250 2,527 User benchmarks, average bench 85% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 97.4 1-Core 111 2-Core 206 81% 138 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 472 52% 408 Pts	64-Core 587 36% 587 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.300.2511.1001 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	63.3% Good	Lighting 80.9 Reflection 57.5 Parallax 102 66% 80.1 fps	MRender 57.7 Gravity 78.2 Splatting 74.4 58% 70.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2528 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 210 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 69 64 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 32 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2903448881	94.5% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 405 Mixed 412 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 82.3 4K Mixed 20.5 135% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 21.4 79% 176 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 124%
WD WD1500HLFS-01G6U1 150GB 7,915 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 36GB free Firmware: 04.04V02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 198 88783 (03) Spinup time 182 181 1866 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3306 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23726 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2238 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3306 (C2) HDA temperature 117 103 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50.5% Above average	Read 87.1 Write 88.4 Mixed 97.1 69% 90.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.53 4K Mixed 0.58 143% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 68%
WD Elements 10B8 500GB 1,821 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 221GB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	43.5% Average	Read 105 Write 100 Mixed 91.8 126% 99.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.22 79% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 39%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 44,086 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75% Very good	MC Read 37.1 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 21.9 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.4 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 17.2 47% 16.3 GB/s	Latency 48.7 82% 48.7 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 64%

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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 35%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	616x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	468x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	416x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	290x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	204x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	81x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	75x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	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