Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 72.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	22.7% 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)
Boot Drive	63.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	22.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150731
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 10:27
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590S-$79 11,598 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	72.9% Very good	Memory 82.9 1-Core 100 2-Core 195 72% 126 Pts	4-Core 364 8-Core 365 49% 365 Pts	64-Core 372 23% 372 Pts
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 460-$90 64,240 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Gigabyte(1458 22D2) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	22.7% Poor	Lighting 26.3 Reflection 31.8 Parallax 30.7 21% 29.6 fps	MRender 31 Gravity 24.6 Splatting 34.8 25% 30.1 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 22.7% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 163 100 931 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 433 (A6) Unknown 100 100 33 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 85 (A9) Unknown 100 100 23 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 72 (AE) Unknown 100 100 73 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 100 188978561063 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6120 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2267 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2056	63.4% Good	Read 467 Write 194 Mixed 205 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 95.9 4K Mixed 3.98 98% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 23.7 48% 98.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 78%
Seagate ST2000NM0011 2TB-$60 4,076 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free Firmware: SN03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 63 92756945 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2301 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 68767280972 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6082 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1229 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 638844961 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2887 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 51539607585 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 99 92756945 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	84.5% Excellent	Read 143 Write 151 Mixed 80 92% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.48 124% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$580 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 930GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 25345736 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 852 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5647664 (09) Power-on hours count 98 97 2585 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 313 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 44 4799594526 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 137 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 980 (C2) HDA temperature 30 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 14 12 25345736 (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 131868380891783 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3431955147 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2704811016	73.6% Very good	Read 127 Write 130 Mixed 28 69% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.18 72% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 75%
WD WD2002FYPS-01U1B0 2TB 7,087 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 557GB free Firmware: 04.01G01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 239 229 10025 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5050 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15900 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1279 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 216 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 151 151 149417 (C2) HDA temperature 117 103 35 (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	41.3% Average	Read 69.4 Write 73.9 Mixed 5.72 36% 49.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.45 131% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 63%
Seagate ST3500414CS 500GB 23,667 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 341GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 200300376 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4444107417 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21620 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1200 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25797198803 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 118 (BE) vendor-specific 72 42 21299213959196 (C2) HDA temperature 28 58 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 32 200300376 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 157	52.3% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 87.7 Mixed 39.9 54% 74 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.41 97% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-057.A00LF 0711 PUD31600C118GVS 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	50.9% Above average	MC Read 17.8 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16.4 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 16.7 SC Mixed 14.4 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 75.3 53% 75.3 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 52%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	615x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	468x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	416x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	290x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	204x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	63x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	81x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	75x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $750

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