Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	54.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z97X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	25.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150421
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '18 at 22:05
Run Duration	410 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 128 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 686 73% 581 Pts	64-Core 687 42% 687 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 1370) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63.3% Good	Lighting 80.3 Reflection 85 Parallax 74.6 65% 80 fps	MRender 79.8 Gravity 72.5 Splatting 66.8 59% 73.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 120GB-$28 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 62GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 0 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 97 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (94) Unknown 100 100 0 (95) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 9 (AA) Unknown 100 100 10 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131076 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C2) HDA temperature 67 62 163210002465 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 1 1 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 160 (F1) Unknown 100 100 145 (F2) Unknown 100 100 93 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2 (F5) Unknown 100 100 4 (F6) Unknown 100 100 12168	54.8% Above average	Read 352 Write 177 Mixed 287 60% 272 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 63.4 4K Mixed 4.24 81% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 136 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 5.53 52% 119 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 85%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 303GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 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 184 179 7775 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 150 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10223 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 464 (C2) HDA temperature 116 103 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	84.9% Excellent	Read 150 Write 146 Mixed 121 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.17 82% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 100%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$51 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 367GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 169 2208 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 500 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21852 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 296 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 231 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 774 (C2) HDA temperature 108 93 35 (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 200 199 10389 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	93.9% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 151 Mixed 140 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.34 120% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 108%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$51 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 72GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 135 11483 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5971 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23710 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 371 (10) Unknown 9 191 169390765591 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 263 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5707 (C2) HDA temperature 119 97 33 (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 200 192 2071 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	77.5% Very good	Read 133 Write 136 Mixed 126 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.7 4K Mixed 0.2 94% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 112%
Samsung HM160HI 160GB-$50 4,054 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 67GB free Firmware: HH100-08 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 467 (03) Spinup time 252 252 2062 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4203 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 21106 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 27 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 396 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 80 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 258 (C2) HDA temperature 139 97 201864183841 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 473 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 181 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5 (C9) Soft read error rate 252 252 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 36 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11097	28.5% Poor	Read 49.1 Write 50 Mixed 47.5 37% 48.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.31 73% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 28.5% Great: 36%
SAMSUNG HM641JX 640GB 27 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 204GB free, PID a02a Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	19.6% Very poor	Read 39.8 Write 42.3 Mixed 38.9 52% 40.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.36 64% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 19.6% Great: 20%
WD My Passport 0820 2TB 18,744 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 56GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	19.6% Very poor	Read 38.7 Write 39.5 Mixed 29 45% 35.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 19.6% Great: 42%
WD My Passport 0820 2TB 18,744 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 42GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	19.5% Very poor	Read 39.4 Write 39.3 Mixed 33.7 48% 37.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.17 65% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 19.5% Great: 42%
Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3 USB 3.0 32GB-$9 66,405 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 14GB free, PID 1666 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	22.5% Poor	Read 123 Write 9.27 Mixed 18.8 42% 50.4 MB/s	4K Read 10.8 4K Write 0.04 4K Mixed 0.04 42% 3.61 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 22.5% Great: 28%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C10 4x8GB 546 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	67.5% Good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 24.4 MC Mixed 19.2 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 23.8 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 86%

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Desktop 84%

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Workstation 36%

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

CPU
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	857x
Core i5-4690KIntel $50Bench 70%, 229,359 samples	349x
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	160x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	321x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	113x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	110x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	97x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	41x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	102x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	67x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	64x

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Total price: $810

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