Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Speed boat	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 35% Sail boat


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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 67.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	64.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	7.9 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 06 '17 at 17:33
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	40%

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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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	67.5% Good	Memory 78.7 1-Core 97.9 2-Core 182 69% 119 Pts	4-Core 322 8-Core 353 44% 337 Pts	64-Core 354 22% 354 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Lighting 81.1 Reflection 79.4 Parallax 69.2 66% 76.6 fps	MRender 72.9 Gravity 73.2 Splatting 74.9 60% 73.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC120G1CS1754D117-551 120GB 2,096 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2096 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 580 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 74 (B1) Unknown 0 0 15 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 33881 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 41 (E7) Temperature 100 100 29 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2 (EA) Unknown 0 0 67 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5303 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7468	74.8% Very good	Read 418 Write 297 Mixed 294 75% 336 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 20 116% 49 MB/s	DQ Read 24.5 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 19.5 50% 97.7 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 42GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 101779763 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1541 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 143233374 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1363 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032844 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 75 53 420872217 (C2) HDA temperature 25 47 34359738393 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 21 101779763 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 14 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -42039139882376 (F1) Unknown 100 253 529258551 (F2) Unknown 100 253 751226422	58% Above average	Read 107 Write 95.6 Mixed 87.6 72% 96.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.66 124% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown OCZ3G1333LVAM2G 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 1317 OCZ3G1333LVAM2G 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 12GB 1066, 1066, 1066, 1066 MHz 2048, 4096, 2048, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	39.5% Below average	MC Read 13.8 MC Write 14.9 MC Mixed 12.5 39% 13.7 GB/s	SC Read 8 SC Write 12.2 SC Mixed 11 30% 10.4 GB/s	Latency 83 48% 83 ns

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,227x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	637x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	400x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	484x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	138x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $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