Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 9% Tree trunk	Desktop 68% Battle cruiser	Workstation 8% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 66.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	4.97% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	63.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '16 at 16:00
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-4330-$140 6,343 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Memory 90.7 1-Core 104 2-Core 186 75% 127 Pts	4-Core 243 8-Core 242 32% 242 Pts	64-Core 249 15% 249 Pts
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Zotac(19DA 730B) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6143 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	4.97% Terrible	Lighting 6.07 Reflection 6.85 Parallax 7.19 5% 6.7 fps	MRender 4 Gravity 6.97 Splatting 6.96 5% 5.97 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.97% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 164GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4530 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3433 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 67 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 49 219043332124 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3052729650 (F7) Unknown 100 100 95456292 (F8) Unknown 100 100 41993958	65.9% Good	Read 478 Write 254 Mixed 339 79% 357 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 9.63 102% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 19.8 DQ Write 93.8 DQ Mixed 53.5 42% 55.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 91%
Crucial MX200 SATA M.2 250GB-$90 2,162 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 231 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2587 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 53 201864773666 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 832477440 (F7) Unknown 100 100 28236282 (F8) Unknown 100 100 54559497	63.8% Good	Read 482 Write 309 Mixed 355 85% 382 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 50.1 4K Mixed 10.7 74% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 142 DQ Write 51.8 DQ Mixed 9.26 30% 67.6 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 112%
Corsair CMFSSD-64GBG2D 64GB 240 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 27GB free Firmware: VBM19C1Q Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19160 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 8286 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 18 18 4923 (B2) Unknown 85 85 9 (B3) Unknown 98 98 27 (B4) Unknown 98 98 1893 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 1 (E8) Unknown 85 85 51 (E9) Unknown 1 1 4294967294	29.2% Poor	Read 206 Write 136 Mixed 116 34% 152 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 7.49 4K Mixed 6.28 44% 11.7 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 29.2% Great: 33%
Crucial MX100 128GB-$74 9,892 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 24GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1033 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1842 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 86 (AE) Unknown 100 100 273 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1036 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 50 214749610011 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 6708940371 (F7) Unknown 100 100 213160581 (F8) Unknown 100 100 506984044	79.8% Very good	Read 505 Write 184 Mixed 266 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 26.3 128% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 50.1 86% 170 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 89%
WD Black 750GB (2008)-$140 11,698 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 545GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 226 219 8683 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18484 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 20124 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8405 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 204 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18454 (C2) HDA temperature 107 81 43 (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 (F0) Head flying hours 77 77 17437 (F1) Unknown 200 200 54984074782 (F2) Unknown 200 200 49913954144	51.3% Above average	Read 100 Write 78.4 Mixed 77.3 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.32 86% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 51.3% Great: 65%

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)	52.7% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 19.1 MC Mixed 16.5 51% 17.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.4 49% 17.1 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 65%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	358x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	199x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	71x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	121x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	73x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	64x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	49x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	25x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	23x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $783

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