Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.5% 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	65.2% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 11 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	4.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 800 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150803
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '22 at 05:46
Run Duration	196 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (44^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, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	80.4% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 108 2-Core 196 78% 132 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 391 52% 390 Pts	64-Core 378 23% 378 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Gigabyte(1458 3794) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 472.12 Performing below potential (75^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.5% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 139 Parallax 126 96% 128 fps	MRender 96.7 Gravity 129 Splatting 116 94% 114 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 67GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AA SusWrite @10s intervals: 73 93 63 54 68 85 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Read 255 Write 168 Mixed 249 SusWrite 72.5 42% 186 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 36.2 133% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 215 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 200 154% 210 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 85%
Corsair Force LE 480GB-$240 5,507 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 78GB free Firmware: SAFC SusWrite @10s intervals: 266 423 217 176 174 101 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 494 Mixed 395 SusWrite 226 90% 403 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 42 162% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 204 188% 287 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 204GB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 106 105 107 88 87 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	59.2% Above average	Read 106 Write 77.8 Mixed 62.8 SusWrite 100 64% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.8 152% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 114%
WD My Passport 25E1 2TB 20,154 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 263GB free, PID 25e1 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 9.3 9.1 8.9 9.3 8.6 9.5 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	9.62% Terrible	Read 15.8 Write 14.3 Mixed 13.5 SusWrite 9.1 18% 13.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 84% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 9.62% Great: 61%
Seagate BUP Slim 2TB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 1.5TB free, PID ac20 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 9.2 9.4 9.5 9.5 9.4 9.1 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	8.02% Terrible	Read 12.5 Write 13.5 Mixed 13.5 SusWrite 9.3 17% 12.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.6 68% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 8.02% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 43,127 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	59% Above average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 19.1 59% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.7 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 17.4 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 61.1 66% 61.1 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 63%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H97-Gaming 3 - $132

CPU
Core i7-4790Intel $132Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	221x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	124x
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	98x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	101x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	67x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	49x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $36Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	49x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	34x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	44x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	39x
KHX1866C10D3/8G 9905403-400.A00LF 9905403-400.A00LF 16GBKingstonBench 51%, 42 samples	24x

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