Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 49% Yacht	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	31.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111012
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '17 at 19:59
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 90.9 2-Core 181 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 347 8-Core 351 47% 349 Pts	64-Core 348 22% 348 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 16.6 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.8% Good	Lighting 76.4 Reflection 64.5 Parallax 87.1 62% 76 fps	MRender 63.6 Gravity 63.3 Splatting 80.4 58% 69.1 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingdian S180 60GB 171 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: r1.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 665 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 18 (A3) Unknown 0 0 136 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 0 0 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 262145 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 4295426052 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 129 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 75 75 257700003865 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 0 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 0 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 0 0 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 429109031 (F2) Unknown 100 100 543073887	31.4% Below average	Read 341 Write 69.9 Mixed 109 37% 173 MB/s	4K Read 14.1 4K Write 39.8 4K Mixed 1.65 44% 18.5 MB/s	DQ Read 19.9 DQ Write 44 DQ Mixed 5.34 12% 23.1 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.4% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 786GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 74 64 25592249 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 48 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3369292 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 108 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 48 (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 68 60 554827808 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 48 (C2) HDA temperature 32 12 51539607584 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 15 1 25592249 (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 133740986630252 (F1) Unknown 100 253 731055877 (F2) Unknown 100 253 598803967	95.7% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 159 Mixed 148 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.29 89% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	MC Read 19.2 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 17.1 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 16 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 65%

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

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	366x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	238x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	102x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	94x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	88x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	41x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	36x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	385x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	289x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	170x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

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 $177	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