Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 (all builds)
Memory	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140319
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 04 '16 at 23:22
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	72.3% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 100 2-Core 182 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 325 8-Core 494 51% 410 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7290 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 118 Parallax 108 94% 113 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 287GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4856 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 278 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 67 62 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4730536554	87.5% Excellent	Read 514 Write 411 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 41.4 4K Mixed 33.9 129% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38.5 DQ Write 61.8 DQ Mixed 42.1 34% 47.4 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 134%
Hitachi HDS723020BLE640 2TB 3,261 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2TB free Firmware: MX4OAAB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 73 (03) Spinup time 129 129 21494169894 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 15054 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23171 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1080 (C0) Power-off retract count 88 88 15055 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 15055 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 206159347747 (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 200 200 0	102% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 177 Mixed 161 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.19 113% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 103%
Hitachi HDS723020BLE640 2TB 3,261 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 927GB free (System drive) Firmware: MX4OAAB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 129 129 21494104357 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1091 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23526 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1080 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1294 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1294 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 210454183974 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 88 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	81.1% Excellent	Read 144 Write 138 Mixed 133 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.2 60% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F3 DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GB 375 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 1 of 8 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	25.8% Poor	MC Read 8.4 MC Write 7.4 MC Mixed 7.8 22% 7.87 GB/s	SC Read 8.4 SC Write 8.6 SC Mixed 8.1 24% 8.37 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 25.8% Great: 31%

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

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 50%

Yacht

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UP4 - $480

CPU
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	280x
Core i7-4930KIntel $90Bench 77%, 22,204 samples	195x
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	187x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	58x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	54x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	21x

RAM
DDR3 1866 4x4GBAdataBench 68%, 420 samples	23x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 60%, 738 samples	16x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	16x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $802

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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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