Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	51.9% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120821
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 25 '16 at 17:46
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	42%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	70.9% Very good	Memory 88.7 1-Core 98.2 2-Core 171 71% 119 Pts	4-Core 288 8-Core 465 46% 376 Pts	64-Core 480 30% 480 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7557 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 147 Parallax 136 110% 139 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 131 Splatting 107 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 146GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7551 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2129 (B1) Unknown 99 99 27 (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 76 68 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 134 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3313990963	74.8% Very good	Read 504 Write 406 Mixed 451 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 38.4 4K Mixed 19.8 75% 25.8 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 68.9 DQ Mixed 53.5 66% 122 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 86%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1515 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2133 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 70 (AE) Unknown 100 100 249 (B5) Unknown 100 100 5927069025419 (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 88 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	51.9% Above average	Read 477 Write 191 Mixed 274 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 48.8 4K Mixed 3.73 69% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 26.8 DQ Write 73.4 DQ Mixed 7.63 18% 35.9 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 809GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 164156472 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6649 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35451268 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7405 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2133 (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 71 61 487522333 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 43643 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 42949672989 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 49791555865247 (F1) Unknown 100 253 95402664104958 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61710764253541	75.7% Very good	Read 130 Write 134 Mixed 122 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.33 76% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial ST51264BA1339.16FM 4x4GB 116 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.6% Average	MC Read 15 MC Write 13.9 MC Mixed 13.4 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.6 SC Write 14.2 SC Mixed 13.7 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 53%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H - $280

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	506x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	371x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	279x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	140x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	120x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	104x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	63x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	48x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	44x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	56x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	56x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	41x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $560

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 $52

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