Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 51% Yacht	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 72.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	67.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	42.6% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20111012
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '17 at 11:24
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600-$195 185,630 User benchmarks, average bench 67% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	72.6% Very good	Memory 91.7 1-Core 93.2 2-Core 178 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 291 8-Core 415 44% 353 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	67.5% Good	Lighting 73.5 Reflection 120 Parallax 111 60% 101 fps	MRender 99.4 Gravity 106 Splatting 96.8 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LS SSD 960GB 117 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 171GB free Firmware: SAFC01.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3342 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 467 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1861 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131084 (AE) Unknown 100 100 8 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2540 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10083	46.3% Average	Read 168 Write 234 Mixed 184 44% 195 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 58.2 4K Mixed 11.4 80% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 73.8 DQ Mixed 13.3 20% 37.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 105%
Corsair Force GT 90GB-$96 764 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 84 84 8470786 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 -100150047395604 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2018 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 21 (B1) Unknown 0 0 9 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 66 60133867546 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8470786 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8470786 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8470786 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9183 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10023 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10023 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11135	42.6% Average	Read 289 Write 78 Mixed 135 36% 167 MB/s	4K Read 17.9 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 10.9 82% 35.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29.1 DQ Write 91.3 DQ Mixed 10.2 22% 43.5 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 78%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 42GB free Firmware: 02.00A02 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 180 6616 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2391 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12649 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2091 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 85 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 380924 (C2) HDA temperature 121 94 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48% Average	Read 83.1 Write 84 Mixed 63.3 57% 76.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.2 69% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	48.3% Average	MC Read 16.6 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 15.1 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 13.6 42% 14.8 GB/s	Latency 64.5 62% 64.5 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD5-B3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	62x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	17x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	7x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	7x
Quadro 600NvidiaBench 3%, 15,964 samples	5x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	6x
870 EVO 1TBSamsung $100Bench 112%, 129,044 samples	4x
MX500 500GBCrucial $54Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	4x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	41x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	20x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	14x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $535

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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