Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte B250M-DS3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161103
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 03 '17 at 16:38
Run Duration	87 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 89.7 1-Core 127 2-Core 255 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 708 74% 596 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3366) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 146 Parallax 124 111% 135 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 128 Splatting 106 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 452GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 63 178223228 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 31 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11239597 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 31 (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 63 60 622067749 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 32 (C2) HDA temperature 37 18 77309411365 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 2 1 178223228 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 110080011796708 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2736050826 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2644055694	85.3% Excellent	Read 153 Write 144 Mixed 136 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.28 84% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 4x4GB 497 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2400 MHz clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.4% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 21.5 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 22.9 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 101%

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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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Typical GA-B250M-DS3H-CF Builds (Compare 4,617 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 25%

Raft

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H - $190

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	882x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	845x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	561x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	697x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	529x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	326x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	167x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	118x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	89x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	84x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	68x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $414

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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