Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	115% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	100% 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 9 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140530
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 17 '18 at 11:16
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.2% Excellent	Memory 95.3 1-Core 101 2-Core 200 77% 132 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 400 51% 386 Pts	64-Core 384 24% 384 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	115% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 209 Parallax 166 119% 174 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 180 Splatting 124 117% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 80GB free Firmware: 605A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 17939661 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -850403515967 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1328 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 91 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 40 68722098203 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 68722098203 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17939661 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17939661 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17939661 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 94489280512 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2852 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2622 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2622 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6396 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1900553	77.5% Very good	Read 506 Write 225 Mixed 280 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 10.5 129% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 128 DQ Write 200 DQ Mixed 59.4 74% 129 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 84%
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^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 11095 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2063 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 87 87 390 (AE) Unknown 100 100 141 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 50 214749413405 (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 87 87 13 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 42429756993 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1344377710 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1594166310	100% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 324 Mixed 388 91% 411 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 33.6 160% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 46.8 93% 188 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 191404242 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 354 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 39316403 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 116518167774856 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 239 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 622133276 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 96 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15273 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 51539607580 (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 106906030965288 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8280042242 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7735787041	85% Excellent	Read 150 Write 147 Mixed 132 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 105%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 274GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 170 2300 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1033 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3276 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 549 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4414 (C2) HDA temperature 111 96 32 (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	92.9% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 143 Mixed 134 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.29 101% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 4x4GB 17,012 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	69.5% Good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 21.8 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 21.1 54% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 56.1 71% 56.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 73%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 - $162

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	842x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	348x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	157x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	317x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	112x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	96x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	99x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	66x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	63x

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Total price: $810

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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