Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% 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	74.8% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 15 '18 at 21:11
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 94.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 235 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 566 61% 486 Pts	64-Core 580 36% 580 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% EVGA(3842 6678) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 136 Parallax 130 109% 133 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 125 Splatting 102 88% 108 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 213GB free Firmware: P1003B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^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 100 100 223 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 575 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 25 (A3) Unknown 100 100 32 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2516 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 4 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 54 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 111207 (F2) Unknown 100 100 109699 (F5) Unknown 100 100 161024	88.9% Excellent	Read 498 Write 401 Mixed 452 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 23 109% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 262 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 74 109% 203 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 105%
OCZ AGILITY4 128GB 1,160 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21982 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1973 (E8) Unknown 100 100 40081338672 (E9) Unknown 95 0 95	74.8% Very good	Read 242 Write 295 Mixed 207 56% 248 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 25.5 124% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 71.5 97% 175 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 869GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 14128769 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2117 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 140806130 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 31779 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2105 (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 59 50 689242153 (C2) HDA temperature 41 50 51539607593 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 12 14128769 (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 60301340873609 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1260610549 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2327544691	52.2% Above average	Read 102 Write 79.6 Mixed 83.9 67% 88.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.44 111% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 4x4GB 14,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 18.7 60% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 19.8 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 57.7 69% 57.7 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 64%

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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	1,217x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	633x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	396x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	479x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	69x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	136x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	96x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

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