Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is 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	45.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	20.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	7.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 06 '17 at 19:42
Run Duration	333 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 124 2-Core 208 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 370 8-Core 583 59% 477 Pts	64-Core 569 35% 569 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 3690) 2GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	33.8% Below average	Lighting 43.7 Reflection 43.5 Parallax 38.7 36% 42 fps	MRender 38.5 Gravity 39.5 Splatting 33.9 30% 37.3 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X300 256GB-$99 2,341 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 187GB free Firmware: X3540000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1665 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 37 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17187995731 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 37 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 336 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 28 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 27 115965100056 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 55835492366 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 406 (EA) Unknown 100 100 428 (F1) Unknown 253 253 213 (F2) Unknown 253 253 52 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0
Poor: 56% Great: 97%
SanDisk X300 256GB-$99 2,341 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 187GB free Firmware: X3540000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1663 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 37 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17188126804 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 281 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 27 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 28 120260067355 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 60130459662 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 406 (EA) Unknown 100 100 430 (F1) Unknown 253 253 216 (F2) Unknown 253 253 54 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0
Poor: 56% Great: 97%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: 541ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 116820285 (05) Reallocated sector count 84 84 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 -84628035583151 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 555 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 306 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 37 51542032409 (C2) HDA temperature 25 37 51542032409 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 116820285 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 116820285 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 116820285 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 124554051584 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12252 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11966 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11966 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5396	45.1% Average	Read 168 Write 142 Mixed 112 31% 141 MB/s	4K Read 16.4 4K Write 98.5 4K Mixed 6.58 85% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 110 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 42.3 57% 103 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 819GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 79 206075898 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 17113 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 38863473279 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42708 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 605 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 13210 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065668 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 74 49 471466010 (C2) HDA temperature 26 51 64424509466 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 18 206075898 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 24 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 24 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 65360812338415 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1813182341 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2956599725	64.8% Good	Read 116 Write 110 Mixed 109 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.58 123% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 68%
WDC WD15 EARS-32MVWB0 1.5TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.6% Average	Read 119 Write 116 Mixed 84 134% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.16 84% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 50%
WDC WD15 EARS-32MVWB0 1.5TB 1.5TB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.2% Average	Read 117 Write 120 Mixed 91.2 139% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.19 76% 0.97 MB/s

ST375064 0AS 750GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 698GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	30.6% Below average	Read 72.9 Write 74.1 Mixed 53.8 85% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.4 58% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 30.6% Great: 31%
ST375064 0AS 750GB 698GB free, PID 0567 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	28.2% Poor	Read 69.6 Write 69.2 Mixed 53.5 81% 64.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.37 47% 0.64 MB/s

WDC WD10 JPVT-22A1YT0 1TB 18 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 106GB free, PID 0c31 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	18.1% Very poor	Read 32.4 Write 34.3 Mixed 32.6 43% 33.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.17 72% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 18.1% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x8GB 6,467 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	58.6% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 21.4 MC Mixed 18.2 57% 20.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 19.8 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 65%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	850x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	349x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	158x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	318x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	97x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	100x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	64x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $810

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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16