Gigabyte GA-H97M-HD3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 83.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	57.3% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97M-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	1.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '17 at 11:54
Run Duration	88 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790S-$60 13,224 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Memory 89.6 1-Core 120 2-Core 230 83% 146 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 566 63% 495 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ RevoDrive 3 PCIe 240GB-$600 224 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 199GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 20972625 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 125103807406589 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1836 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 351 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20972625 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20972625 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20972625 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5609 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5034 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5034 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9199	57.3% Above average	Read 389 Write 208 Mixed 245 62% 281 MB/s	4K Read 18.7 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 9.27 94% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 20.7 DQ Write 83.2 DQ Mixed 8.68 19% 37.5 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 81%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G3D1608DT1TX0. 2x8GB 7,008 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 15.9 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 65%

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

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-HD3 - $75

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	113x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	75x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	60x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	53x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	41x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	29x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	25x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	19x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $37Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	14x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	35x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	24x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	11x

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Total price: $384

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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