Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 13 '18 at 21:19
Run Duration	299 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 129 2-Core 255 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 684 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8504) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (75^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	60.6% Good	Lighting 77.2 Reflection 78.8 Parallax 78.3 63% 78.1 fps	MRender 76.1 Gravity 68.3 Splatting 63.6 56% 69.3 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata SP900NS38 256GB 685 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: 6.0.3b Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 13657244 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -27711128993789 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 48 57 73018179632 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13657244 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13657244 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13657244 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 38654705665 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294966043 (EA) Unknown 0 0 0 (F1) Unknown 0 0 0 (F2) Unknown 0 0 0	73.8% Very good	Read 473 Write 207 Mixed 298 72% 326 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 20.1 115% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 145 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 54.6 80% 145 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 81%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 28GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 2 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7910 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2957 (B1) Unknown 96 96 39 (B3) Unknown 99 99 2 (B5) Unknown 99 99 2 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 62 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14063539896	77.1% Very good	Read 492 Write 236 Mixed 214 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 88 4K Mixed 13.5 108% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 32.5 88% 192 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 85%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1GB free Firmware: 521A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 4294967296 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 -134544145496462 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 305 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 145 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 61 1009321312287 (C2) HDA temperature 31 61 1009321312287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4294967296 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4294967296 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4294967296 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14380 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9152 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9152 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9502	44.1% Average	Read 180 Write 116 Mixed 106 30% 134 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 65.3 4K Mixed 14.5 87% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 109 DQ Write 95.4 DQ Mixed 29.4 42% 78 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.1% Great: 73%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 181 3883 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2011 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1354 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 133 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1887 (C2) HDA temperature 115 98 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	107% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 187 Mixed 175 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 3.23 4K Mixed 0.46 152% 1.56 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 286GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 168 4458 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4720 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3311 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3518 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 398 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4321 (C2) HDA temperature 107 97 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	68% Good	Read 106 Write 131 Mixed 133 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.33 126% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 217GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145050152 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1530 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 41521498 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3800 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1196 (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 69 62 521994271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23366 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 64424509471 (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 38817914423452 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47325649763 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43290023415	78.8% Very good	Read 152 Write 122 Mixed 150 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 112%
SanDisk Extreme Go USB 3.1 64GB-$23 2,139 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 24GB free, PID 558b Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	40.8% Average	Read 194 Write 16.2 Mixed 63.1 85% 91.1 MB/s	4K Read 7 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 1.17 149% 3.54 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 64%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x8GB 1,459 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	56.9% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.5 MC Mixed 16.3 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 20.4 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 72%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	695x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	195x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	82x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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Total price: $823

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	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 $39	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