Gigabyte GA-X99M-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	70.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	95.7% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X99M-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '16 at 23:22
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-5960X-$285 15,468 User benchmarks, average bench 80% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 8 cores, 16 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	77.2% Very good	Memory 89.1 1-Core 85.2 2-Core 187 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 351 8-Core 716 63% 533 Pts	64-Core 1,037 64% 1,037 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 9.18.13.5306 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Lighting 94.8 Reflection 82.8 Parallax 75 77% 84.2 fps	MRender 77 Gravity 72.3 Splatting 66 58% 71.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 312 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 59 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 37 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 55 38 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 509178917	95.7% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 407 Mixed 420 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 26 128% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 102 124% 222 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 123%
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 264GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 91648282 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9779 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 77752896 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13490 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3579 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 505282590 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 73014444062 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 43 27 91648282 (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 -287762786775 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3275938444 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1257412003	33.1% Below average	Read 60.6 Write 54.6 Mixed 57.9 44% 57.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.43 93% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 62%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 8GB 204 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 4GB free, PID 0723 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Read 18.9 Write 18.4 Mixed 17.9 24% 18.4 MB/s	4K Read 4.47 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 1.41 124% 2.54 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 12%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSA.M16FA 2x8GB 776 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	71.8% Very good	MC Read 33.6 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 23.9 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.2 SC Write 16.4 SC Mixed 18.9 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 68.3 58% 68.3 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 75%

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

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Workstation 75%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X99M-Gaming 5

CPU
Core i7-5820KIntel $130Bench 77%, 101,694 samples	100x
Core i7-6800KIntel $78Bench 81%, 50,196 samples	39x
Core i7-5930KIntel $70Bench 80%, 34,039 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	19x
RTX 3060Nvidia $270Bench 100%, 447,556 samples	16x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	14x

SSD
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	11x
850 Pro 256GBSamsung $115Bench 102%, 141,929 samples	9x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 4x4GBCrucial $84Bench 97%, 1,914 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GBCorsair $154Bench 85%, 8,498 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x16GBCorsair $74Bench 76%, 29,684 samples	7x

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Total price: $753

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