Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% 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	62% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160711
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 30 '16 at 04:41
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 5.9 GHz, turbo 7.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 118 2-Core 210 83% 142 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 602 62% 500 Pts	64-Core 603 37% 603 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 151 Parallax 126 117% 140 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 140 Splatting 113 100% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 85GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4188778 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 -16810501991663 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 170 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 129 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 35 64426803228 (C2) HDA temperature 28 35 64426803228 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4188778 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4188778 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4188778 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 73014444032 (E9) Unknown 0 0 690 (EA) Unknown 0 0 458 (F1) Unknown 0 0 458 (F2) Unknown 0 0 694 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2031618	62.3% Good	Read 516 Write 264 Mixed 322 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 15.9 78% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 74.2 DQ Mixed 12.3 20% 37.3 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 84%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 503ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 11988290 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -30296699275554 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1212 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 672 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 79 47249817627 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11988290 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11988290 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11988290 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25629 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23097 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23097 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14395	62% Good	Read 521 Write 135 Mixed 189 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 78.1 4K Mixed 13.5 94% 38.3 MB/s	DQ Read 111 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 12.9 42% 91.2 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 87%
Kingston SSDNow V+ Series 128GB 720 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 44GB free Firmware: AGYA0201 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 92 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 39494 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1959 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 975085896112 (AA) Unknown 100 100 103088390242 (AD) Unknown 100 100 141765443823 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 554 (C2) HDA temperature 75 48 223339151385 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	36.8% Below average	Read 205 Write 162 Mixed 195 42% 187 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 41.5 4K Mixed 12.2 57% 22.2 MB/s	DQ Read 22.9 DQ Write 48.4 DQ Mixed 12.4 16% 27.9 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 44%
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 318GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 83375342 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9753 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 51618713 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41704 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2813 (B7) Unknown 1 1 106 (B8) Unknown 1 1 1139 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 55835754772 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 74 46 437846042 (C2) HDA temperature 26 54 42949672986 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 23 83375342 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 191 48618 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -23858543288629 (F1) Unknown 100 253 532632084 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1941774512	56.5% Above average	Read 96.8 Write 100 Mixed 91.4 72% 96.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.51 113% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 315GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51613720 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1013 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 54438296 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18349 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 690 (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 70 64 17685086238 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 600 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 232253 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 -140737488355298 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 41931765719450 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21242877322 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17785262976	83.3% Excellent	Read 151 Write 140 Mixed 140 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.29 80% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 12,350 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	59.6% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 18.5 56% 19.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 19.6 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 51.9 77% 51.9 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 64%

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	308x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	281x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	84x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	72x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	62x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	44x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	36x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	35x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	28x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	310x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	158x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	129x

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Value: 54% - Above average

Total price: $546

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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