Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 103% UFO	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


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 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	127% 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	89.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF (all builds)
Memory	20.5 GB free of 24 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140617
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 28 '17 at 02:40
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 90 1-Core 114 2-Core 229 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 441 58% 439 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 213 Parallax 186 141% 191 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 180 Splatting 122 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 5GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1199 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 430 (B1) Unknown 97 97 27 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 63 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5187754272	89.9% Excellent	Read 499 Write 340 Mixed 335 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 23.3 156% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 160 DQ Write 30.1 DQ Mixed 32 40% 74 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 374GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 168 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 789 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 430 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 777 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.3% Excellent	Read 150 Write 134 Mixed 141 107% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.24 100% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D3-1600-MR 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 0821 16G-D3-1600-MR 1315 BLS4G3D1609DS1S00. 24GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	54.5% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 19.3 MC Mixed 17.1 53% 18.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.8 52% 18.1 GB/s	Latency 67.2 60% 67.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 56%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SLI-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	705x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	471x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	211x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	269x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	126x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	47x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	72x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	53x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	46x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $648

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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) $37	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