Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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	54.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	95.5% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150918
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '17 at 02:06
Run Duration	372 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 125 2-Core 248 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 469 61% 461 Pts	64-Core 448 28% 448 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1565 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	54.7% Above average	Lighting 67.9 Reflection 73.7 Parallax 65.7 55% 69.1 fps	MRender 77.9 Gravity 64.5 Splatting 56.9 53% 66.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X300 256GB-$99 2,341 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 194GB free (System drive) Firmware: X3540000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5082 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1589 (A5) Unknown 100 100 206282229272 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 43 (A8) Unknown 100 100 22 (A9) Unknown 100 100 542 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 221 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 48 206159609891 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2456740823612 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4532 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8127 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7027 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10221 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	95.5% Outstanding	Read 492 Write 367 Mixed 354 90% 405 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 96.3 4K Mixed 27.4 136% 52.1 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 62.2 110% 217 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 477GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 69 63 10225470 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 789 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11625662 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2081 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 557 (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 69 42 521666591 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 803 (C2) HDA temperature 31 15 64424509471 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 10225470 (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 -115727893788854 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6993818353 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8457318374	87.2% Excellent	Read 158 Write 146 Mixed 130 108% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.3 92% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 380GB free Firmware: HP73 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 73 3080 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2269 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 24 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 4674783689 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10836 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1872 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4251522867 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3235 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 48 504954910 (C2) HDA temperature 30 52 68719476766 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 28 3080 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 24 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	70.8% Very good	Read 123 Write 124 Mixed 108 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.21 4K Mixed 0.39 90% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 88%
SanDisk Cruzer Fit 8GB 4,577 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 1GB free, PID 5571 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	7.58% Terrible	Read 22.2 Write 3.17 Mixed 4.8 9% 10.1 MB/s	4K Read 6.42 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 1.31 92% 2.81 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.58% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 2,134 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	71.9% Very good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 23.4 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 23 SC Mixed 20.7 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 53.4 75% 53.4 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 63%

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Gaming 9%

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Desktop 73%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H - $126

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	192x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	156x
Core i5-4690KIntel $53Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	91x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	98x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	68x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	39x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	30x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	12x

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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 $46

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