Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


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 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 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	77.5% 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.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 02:43
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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 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 (88^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 85.8 1-Core 108 2-Core 214 77% 136 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 585 58% 476 Pts	64-Core 581 36% 581 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 64.4 Parallax 100 62% 80.4 fps	MRender 64.1 Gravity 63 Splatting 80.9 58% 69.3 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 12970677 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 119150982728854 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 709 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 59 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 39 55837130779 (C2) HDA temperature 27 39 55837130779 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12970677 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12970677 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12970677 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 77309411329 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8319 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7825 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7825 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7777 (F4) Unknown 100 100 4259868	77.5% Very good	Read 500 Write 237 Mixed 261 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 85.1 4K Mixed 20.7 112% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 218 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 63.6 93% 172 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 85%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 70 (03) Spinup time 126 126 25789464876 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 701 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3209 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 701 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3836 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 3836 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 167504707615 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	93% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 152 Mixed 161 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GB 40,596 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.9% Average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 18.2 MC Mixed 15.4 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 15.4 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 85%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	445x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	140x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	126x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	89x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	73x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	38x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	28x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	32x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 4x8GBCrucialBench 57%, 8,984 samples	21x

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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 $182	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) $30	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