Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 25% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	1.5 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '17 at 23:20
Run Duration	277 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 124 2-Core 245 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 663 69% 554 Pts	64-Core 662 41% 662 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 366E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.1% Very good	Lighting 91.2 Reflection 88.3 Parallax 77.4 74% 85.6 fps	MRender 80.3 Gravity 79.2 Splatting 69.9 62% 76.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandis S120GG25 120GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: R112 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 98849972 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 101120710030961 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 561 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 517 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 43 68722294814 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 98849972 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 98849972 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 98849972 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11094 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10612 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10612 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16570	67.5% Good	Read 478 Write 122 Mixed 186 57% 262 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 18.8 121% 49.7 MB/s	DQ Read 135 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 43.4 56% 101 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 78%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$58 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 697GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 178 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 49 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1311 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	81.2% Excellent	Read 140 Write 143 Mixed 137 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.29 115% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 84%
Samsun HD403LJ 400GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 280GB free Firmware: CT100-12 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7424 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1613 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 24733 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 775 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 6615046 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 2 (BE) vendor-specific 64 39 36 (C2) HDA temperature 130 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6615046 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 253 0	37.2% Below average	Read 61.5 Write 67.8 Mixed 61.7 48% 63.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.32 85% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 43%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$32 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 25GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 143482585 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1083 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 12970893122 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12949 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 393226 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 49 589365282 (C2) HDA temperature 34 51 51539607586 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 27 143482585 (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 -94231582459926 (F1) Unknown 100 253 788409229 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1213604910	43.4% Average	Read 73.4 Write 77.6 Mixed 61.6 53% 70.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.43 85% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 68%
ST3000DM 001-9YN166 3TB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 2TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	61% Good	Read 149 Write 162 Mixed 109 178% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.24 55% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 64%
ST2000DM 001-1CH164 2TB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1.5TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	67.4% Good	Read 156 Write 186 Mixed 106 191% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.34 59% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 66%
ST310005 24AS 1TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 614GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	46% Average	Read 116 Write 112 Mixed 65.2 121% 97.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.5 70% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 46% Great: 46%
SAMSUNG HD403LJ 400GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 288GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	33.2% Below average	Read 76.5 Write 80.3 Mixed 66.2 95% 74.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.34 63% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 1x4GB 1,270 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 4GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	28.9% Poor	MC Read 9.4 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 8.1 26% 8.93 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 9.5 SC Mixed 8.1 25% 8.7 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 35%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	1,228x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	637x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	401x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	484x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	200x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	161x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	76x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	70x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	138x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	97x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $817

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $515	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16