Gigabyte GA-H97M-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 65.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	88.9% 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	61.9% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97M-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	7.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150920
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 09 '17 at 00:12
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	65.9% Good	Memory 75 1-Core 93.8 2-Core 188 68% 119 Pts	4-Core 329 8-Core 330 44% 330 Pts	64-Core 324 20% 324 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 115 Parallax 108 92% 112 fps	MRender 97.6 Gravity 104 Splatting 101 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB-$41 16,752 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 200GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32040RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 248 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 389 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3633604527007 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7 (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 37 (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 1327148433717 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1736 (EA) Unknown 100 100 17317 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5118 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5214 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	61.9% Good	Read 490 Write 349 Mixed 201 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 11.2 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 0.04 51% 25.2 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 0.05 45% 111 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 76%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 2TB 13,609 User benchmarks, average bench 146% 405GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	153% Outstanding	Read 240 Write 293 Mixed 165 173% 232 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.96 4K Mixed 0.37 135% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 153% Great: 213%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C9D3/4GX 0215 CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 KHX1600C9D3/4GX 0215 CMZ4GX3M1A1600C9 16GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.5% Average	MC Read 15.4 MC Write 16.5 MC Mixed 14.4 44% 15.4 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 15.6 SC Mixed 14 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 90.4 44% 90.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 44.5% Great: 64%

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Gaming 28%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 23%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97M-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	42x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	27x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	23x

GPU
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	27x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	26x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	20x
RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 49%, 28,220 samples	7x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 31%, 37,489 samples	7x

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Value: 56% - Above average

Total price: $371

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