Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.7% 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	85.5% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Jul 09 '19 at 20:02
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	36%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 119 2-Core 237 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 456 61% 458 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-56-$170 92,053 User benchmarks, average bench 78% Sapphire(1DA2 E376) CLim: 1590 MHz, MLim: 800 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.6.1 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Lighting 95 Reflection 88.7 Parallax 138 77% 107 fps	MRender 86.5 Gravity 101 Splatting 123 87% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 112GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 341 356 359 355 362 361 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Read 474 Write 343 Mixed 245 SusWrite 356 79% 354 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 14.7 120% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 172 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 88.3 110% 189 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 86%
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 30GB free Firmware: M0CR040 SusWrite @10s intervals: 320 287 324 202 278 213 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	79.2% Very good	Read 382 Write 338 Mixed 238 SusWrite 270 69% 307 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 25.3 121% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 261 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 208 169% 240 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 104%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 230GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 65 65 64 65 65 65 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	41.6% Average	Read 79.7 Write 76.5 Mixed 57 SusWrite 64.7 51% 69.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.9 182% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 62%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 100 104 104 105 105 104 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	58.7% Above average	Read 101 Write 87.7 Mixed 87.5 SusWrite 104 70% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.6 131% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 6,948 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	74.1% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 22.8 74% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 21.9 SC Mixed 23.2 59% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 55 73% 55 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 71%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 84%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 7 - $175

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	692x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	194x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	147x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	81x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	65x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 2133 C11 2x8GBKingstonBench 61%, 11,630 samples	40x
BLS8G3D1609DS1S00. 2x8GBCrucialBench 55%, 48,796 samples	36x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $823

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