Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	118% 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	115% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	6.8 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 09 '17 at 05:24
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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 (99^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 110 2-Core 226 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 529 58% 460 Pts	64-Core 498 31% 498 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	118% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 143 Parallax 124 138% 145 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 125 Splatting 105 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9197 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2476 (B1) Unknown 97 97 132 (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 65 37 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 264 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26209062225	115% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 486 Mixed 499 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 36.5 4K Write 92.3 4K Mixed 46.5 164% 58.4 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 156 158% 259 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 4TB 7,970 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2.5TB free Firmware: D781 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 150 Mixed 141 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.22 79% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 98%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 164 6350 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11498 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 35935 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4292 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 681 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 169 169 93837 (C2) HDA temperature 102 95 48 (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	27.3% Poor	Read 62.9 Write 32.3 Mixed 46.2 36% 47.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.21 48% 0.35 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 27.3% Great: 67%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 528GB free Firmware: CC62 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 242682704 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 660 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 61 2668385 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10923 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 463 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 7 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 50 47 891027506 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 144 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1251 (C2) HDA temperature 50 53 68719476786 (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 -138001594186011 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3681178189 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2774850158	89.6% Excellent	Read 131 Write 180 Mixed 139 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 5.03 4K Mixed 1.06 250% 2.34 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 146GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 170 4191 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1122 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15496 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 811 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 882 (C2) HDA temperature 97 91 50 (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 7 (C8) Write error rate 200 179 1	40.6% Average	Read 71.2 Write 70.2 Mixed 78 55% 73.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. Samsung M378B1G73EB0-CK0 12GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	42.6% Average	MC Read 14.9 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 12.6 40% 14 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 14.1 37% 12.9 GB/s	Latency 61.4 65% 61.4 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 49%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	704x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	209x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	266x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	72x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	52x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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