Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.6% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.6% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131216
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 01 '17 at 16:03
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4930K-$100 22,204 User benchmarks, average bench 77% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 88 1-Core 94.4 2-Core 187 72% 123 Pts	4-Core 400 8-Core 639 64% 520 Pts	64-Core 751 46% 751 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 88%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 17C8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 113 Parallax 113 87% 111 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 96.5 Splatting 92.6 78% 94.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2217 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 250 (B1) Unknown 97 97 12 (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 55 39 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 21 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9927821975	60.6% Good	Read 479 Write 260 Mixed 272 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 18.4 4K Mixed 17.6 60% 18.1 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 94.8 DQ Mixed 53.1 66% 121 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 123%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 85 123697184 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3768 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 200 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 13331677864 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19385 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2328 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 502 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885164040 (BD) vendor-specific 62 62 38 (BE) vendor-specific 61 46 656015399 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 136 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13755 (C2) HDA temperature 39 54 60129542183 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 80 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 80 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 134299332396645 (F1) Unknown 100 253 90772230106 (F2) Unknown 100 253 159967878094	52.2% Above average	Read 52.7 Write 129 Mixed 28.8 51% 70.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.28 68% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 114%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 480GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 168 2241 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4357 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14441 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1718 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4266 (C2) HDA temperature 105 89 38 (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	76% Very good	Read 150 Write 115 Mixed 79.2 85% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.28 89% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 1,736 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 32.1 MC Mixed 31.5 95% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 11.6 38% 13.2 GB/s	Latency 69.5 58% 69.5 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 97%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	281x
Core i7-4930KIntel $100Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	196x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $51Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	16x

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Value: 106% - Outstanding

Total price: $774

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16