Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 29% Raft	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	30.4% 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)
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	15.5 GB free of 20 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '17 at 13:32
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4670-$52 49,019 User benchmarks, average bench 66% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 110 2-Core 216 81% 140 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 417 56% 419 Pts	64-Core 426 26% 426 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 770-$279 116,895 User benchmarks, average bench 34% Asus(1043 8465) 2GB CLim: 1215 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	30.4% Below average	Lighting 33.4 Reflection 32.8 Parallax 37.1 27% 34.4 fps	MRender 54.1 Gravity 47.6 Splatting 36.3 37% 46 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8441 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1616 (B1) Unknown 96 96 118 (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 72 52 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 447 (F1) Unknown 99 99 20737377568
Poor: 68% Great: 116%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 161750120 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1919 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4884705 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8895 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1529 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 75 49 420216857 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28971 (C2) HDA temperature 25 51 30064771097 (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 9161165247635 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10385361399 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8392585070	103% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 159 Mixed 153 128% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.28 77% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 122GB free Firmware: 02.03E02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 19785 (03) Spinup time 129 127 4533 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6042 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21475 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5976 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 272 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6042 (C2) HDA temperature 109 87 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 73 73 20330 (F1) Unknown 200 200 95448904081 (F2) Unknown 200 200 128615869835	54% Above average	Read 99.5 Write 88.3 Mixed 92.1 70% 93.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.45 113% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54% Great: 60%
Seagate ST9250410AS 250GB-$42 8,782 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 51GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 1375483 (03) Spinup time 100 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 818 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13048862 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2758 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 707 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 42 26173440024 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29371 (C2) HDA temperature 24 58 -8589934568 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 42 1375483 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -91426968828073 (F1) Unknown 100 253 414032256 (F2) Unknown 100 253 619423539 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	39.1% Below average	Read 66 Write 70.1 Mixed 78.6 54% 71.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.29 72% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 56%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$21 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 25GB free Firmware: 02.03A02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 156 154 3200 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1572 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 42 42 42368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1450 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 5 (BE) vendor-specific 66 55 34 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1572 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.1% Average	Read 68.6 Write 71 Mixed 71 53% 70.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.52 118% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/8G 1317 OCZ3X1600R2LV2G KHX1600C9D3/8G 1317 OCZ3X1600R2LV2G 20GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2000, 2000, 2000, 2000 MHz 8192, 2048, 8192, 2048 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	75.1% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 24.2 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 23.1 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 76%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

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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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