Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	33.8% 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	149% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-UD3H-BK
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF (all builds)
Memory	16.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '18 at 00:00
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	32%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 97.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 244 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 607 63% 507 Pts	64-Core 613 38% 613 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Zotac(19DA 1375) 2GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	33.8% Below average	Lighting 43.9 Reflection 43.5 Parallax 38.9 36% 42.1 fps	MRender 35.3 Gravity 39.4 Splatting 35.3 30% 36.7 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$99 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 500GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^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 4457 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 455 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 56 188979806237 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1889821260 (F7) Unknown 100 100 59209554 (F8) Unknown 100 100 17398977 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3594 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85.5% Excellent	Read 482 Write 334 Mixed 339 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 76.6 4K Mixed 25.3 111% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 38.3 93% 197 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 104%
PNY CS1211 480GB SSD 754D117-514 344 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 189GB free Firmware: CS121101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^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 100 100 315 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 719 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 17 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 377 (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 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 33 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2648 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3890	98.9% Outstanding	Read 488 Write 378 Mixed 428 96% 432 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 36.1 144% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 57.7 104% 204 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 102%
Nvme PLEXTOR PX-512M8 512GB 329 User benchmarks, average bench 178% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	149% Outstanding	Read 1,402 Write 750 Mixed 953 228% 1,035 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 98.8 4K Mixed 29.1 148% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 40.7 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 26 35% 60.6 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 149% Great: 248%
Plextor M6e PCIe M.2 256GB-$208 1,444 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 17GB free Firmware: 1.06 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (48^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 7400 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 800 (B1) Unknown 100 100 90009 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 38 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 281672 (F2) Unknown 100 100 267982	115% Outstanding	Read 689 Write 544 Mixed 592 135% 608 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 37.9 146% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 100 111% 180 MB/s
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 129%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 4x8GB 7,519 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	79.9% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 25.5 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 23.4 SC Mixed 23.5 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 46.9 85% 46.9 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 119%

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

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD3H-BK-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	281x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	109x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	75x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	46x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	31x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	18x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	16x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	36x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	15x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 63%, 12,722 samples	14x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $638

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