Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	58.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '20 at 19:01
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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 (88^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 89.9 1-Core 96.7 2-Core 173 72% 120 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 570 56% 458 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6284) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 442.59 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 135 Parallax 119 112% 130 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 132 Splatting 104 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 108 145 138 138 139 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	58.5% Above average	Read 301 Write 208 Mixed 211 SusWrite 127 47% 212 MB/s	4K Read 10.1 4K Write 70.7 4K Mixed 34.3 97% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 171 130% 172 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 783GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 182 181 182 185 183 183 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 92.7 Mixed 75.5 SusWrite 182 98% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 148% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-056.A00LF 9905471-084.A00LF 16GB 70 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31% Below average	MC Read 10.6 MC Write 10.6 MC Mixed 8.4 28% 9.87 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 8.9 26% 9.03 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 31% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 66%

Battle cruiser

Workstation 8%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-D3H - $84

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	487x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	339x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	244x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	278x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	169x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	126x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	70x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	58x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	61x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	57x
Ballistix Sport DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCrucialBench 56%, 44,086 samples	28x

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Value: 55% - Above average

Total price: $334

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16