Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	59.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB 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.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colores, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150731
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 29 '17 at 19:47
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	54%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 111 2-Core 219 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 415 8-Core 430 56% 422 Pts	64-Core 401 25% 401 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2256 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.6% Good	Lighting 78.1 Reflection 79.6 Parallax 69 64% 75.6 fps	MRender 80 Gravity 72.6 Splatting 70.9 61% 74.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd 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 1293 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (64) Unknown 100 100 1352832 (65) Unknown 100 100 295568 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 32 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 805 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 663 (B7) Unknown 99 99 14 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 100 193274707996 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2518 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1601 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2174 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3484 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	59.4% Above average	Read 459 Write 189 Mixed 187 61% 278 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 52.2 4K Mixed 9.48 75% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 19.8 59% 128 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 727GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 63 204517790 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 636 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11188833 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 441 (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 71 59 488112157 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 882 (C2) HDA temperature 29 15 64424509469 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 2 1 204517790 (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 -112214610541063 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5383587298 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5678690834	90.9% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 152 Mixed 145 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.25 79% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1866C10D3/8G 99U5471-020.A00LF 12GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	52.9% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16.8 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 16.6 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 53%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97-HD3 - $102

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	616x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	418x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	291x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	204x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	63x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	81x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	77x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	38x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16