Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 56% Gunboat


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 an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.2% 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	113% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3 (all builds)
Memory	2.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	5.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 17:22
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	20%

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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 i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 127 2-Core 252 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 491 65% 487 Pts	64-Core 481 30% 481 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.2% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 104 Parallax 88 84% 98.2 fps	MRender 89.7 Gravity 89.1 Splatting 91 74% 89.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9089 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 966 (B1) Unknown 90 90 194 (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 59 47 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 29 (F1) Unknown 99 99 73244400032	113% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 409 Mixed 420 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 41.2 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 46.3 172% 60.9 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 114 143% 255 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 88GB free Firmware: CC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 40 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2754 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 35289794865 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 26140 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2477 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 65551 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 56 17785225252 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2765 (C2) HDA temperature 36 44 -140737488355292 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 14 40 (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 21552145917838 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3362917149 (F2) Unknown 100 253 115516346	51.7% Above average	Read 101 Write 79.3 Mixed 77.3 64% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.39 81% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905402-668.A00LF 2x4GB 207 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	55.5% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.6 MC Mixed 17.9 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 14.3 SC Mixed 14.7 40% 14 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 56%

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

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Gaming 38%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97P-D3

CPU
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	622x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	541x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	359x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	307x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	227x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	207x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	160x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	118x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	92x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	148x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	65x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	62x

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Value: 53% - Above average

Total price: $353

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $40	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