Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	40.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Gigabyte Z87X-OC
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC-CF (all builds)
Memory	6.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20140318
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '18 at 23:01
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 105 2-Core 214 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 558 59% 473 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 3669) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	61.9% Good	Lighting 79.9 Reflection 82.2 Parallax 72 65% 78 fps	MRender 75.8 Gravity 65.9 Splatting 64.6 56% 68.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 63GB free Firmware: BBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 225623696 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 2 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -107073534675282 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2151 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 162 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 42 64427261981 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 64427261981 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 225623696 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 225623696 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 225623696 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9980 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6723 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6723 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18435	70.1% Very good	Read 501 Write 197 Mixed 233 68% 311 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 13.1 111% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 96.4 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 52.4 66% 113 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 85%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 20GB free Firmware: 5B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 21197 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 992 (B1) Unknown 96 96 127 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 56 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 12 (EB) Unknown 99 99 276 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10180730551	98.7% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 429 Mixed 467 105% 469 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 24.6 141% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 253 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 73.7 101% 186 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 110%
Kingmax 120G 120GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 118 216056598 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 -107958297933309 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 978 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 334 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 45 60132491292 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 216056598 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 216056598 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 216056598 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27591 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19356 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19356 (F2) Unknown 0 0 27968	40.6% Average	Read 188 Write 84 Mixed 117 28% 130 MB/s	4K Read 18.8 4K Write 74.1 4K Mixed 11.6 82% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 84.4 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 18.5 34% 67.6 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 74%
ST4000DM 000-1F2168 4TB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 2TB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	14.4% Very poor	Read 31.9 Write 28.3 Mixed 29.7 38% 30 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.22 48% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 C9 2x8GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23.5 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 20.1 SC Mixed 22.2 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 54 74% 54 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 109%

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Gaming 46%

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Desktop 81%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 38%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-OC-CF

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	180x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	45x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	41x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	31x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	27x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
840 Pro 256GBSamsung $190Bench 95%, 73,119 samples	12x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x

RAM
TridentX DDR3 2400 C10 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 67%, 24,592 samples	10x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	9x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	8x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $326

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16