Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 85.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.9% 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	32.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Gigabyte Z97X-SOC
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC-CF (all builds)
Memory	22.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 18 '17 at 16:48
Run Duration	273 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (46^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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Memory 96.9 1-Core 129 2-Core 212 86% 146 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 550 60% 478 Pts	64-Core 639 40% 639 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 1999) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 123 Parallax 111 91% 115 fps	MRender 95.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 94.2 80% 97.5 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB-$40 16,752 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1176 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1168296379259 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 9 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 41 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 24 326417514541 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1275608367401 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1590 (EA) Unknown 100 100 16672 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4574 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1750 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	32.9% Below average	Read 502 Write 22.8 Mixed 319 61% 281 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 13.1 4K Mixed 0.04 39% 11.5 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 12.9 DQ Mixed 1.95 7% 17 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 76%
Seagate Expansion Desk 8TB 11,959 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4.5TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	68.1% Good	Read 147 Write 88.2 Mixed 86.9 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 7.71 4K Mixed 0.59 232% 2.95 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 548GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 242984720 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1374 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 68180145 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20569 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 333 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 74 74 26 (BC) Unknown 100 98 64425492495 (BD) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BE) vendor-specific 58 45 707067946 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 148 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39250 (C2) HDA temperature 42 55 81604378666 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 24 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 24 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -47425028869206 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30540441240 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39662504517	70.4% Very good	Read 138 Write 108 Mixed 144 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.16 71% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 113%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 461GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 137 10016 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2118 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 52048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 752 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 666 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 404703 (C2) HDA temperature 108 96 44 (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	38.1% Below average	Read 84.6 Write 48.1 Mixed 76.6 53% 69.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.19 73% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 38.1% Great: 67%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 45GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 179 5958 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3915 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 37773 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 578 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 473 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3441 (C2) HDA temperature 109 101 41 (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	48% Average	Read 98.8 Write 68.2 Mixed 76.6 61% 81.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.17 68% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 88%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 11GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 174 8166 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 752 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 13978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 207 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 166 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 180 180 60166 (C2) HDA temperature 111 96 41 (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	40% Average	Read 70.6 Write 68.6 Mixed 73.1 54% 70.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.2 77% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 87%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 2TB 2,127 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 183GB free, PID 5071 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	16.5% Very poor	Read 37.6 Write 39.3 Mixed 38.3 50% 38.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.14 33% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 4x8GB 2,608 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	78.9% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 25.1 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 23.3 SC Mixed 22.4 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 50.7 79% 50.7 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 88%

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Gaming 64%

Destroyer

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 54%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-SOC-CF

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	51x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	22x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	18x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	15x

SSD
WDS500G2B0A-00SM50 500GBWDCBench 93%, 97,462 samples	7x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	6x

RAM
RipjawsX DDR3 2133 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 55%, 3,028 samples	9x
CT102464BD160B.C16 4x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 804 samples	8x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	7x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $480

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $125	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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