Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 71% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 64.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	111% 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.

CPU throttled at 80% by Windows. Ensure maximum processor state is set to 100% via Settings > System > Power & sleep > Additional power settings > Change plan settings > Change advanced power settings > Processor power management > Maximum processor state.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2 (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140902
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '17 at 22:21
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	0%
CPU Throttled	80%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690K-$53 229,359 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 2.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	64.1% Good	Memory 85.4 1-Core 74.3 2-Core 135 60% 98.1 Pts	4-Core 237 8-Core 315 35% 276 Pts	64-Core 304 19% 304 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.1% Great: 82%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4364 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 4.3 Reflection 7.15 Parallax 7.47 4% 6.31 fps	Gravity 2.57 Splatting 8.57 5% 5.57 fps
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2627 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 368.81 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 159 Parallax 150 121% 152 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 144 Splatting 113 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier Pro SP900 128GB-$40 2,820 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 44GB free Firmware: 5.8.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 6105985 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 16913581221706 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1184 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 80 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 50 98787524648 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6105985 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6105985 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6105985 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 34359738368 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1422 (EA) Unknown 0 0 698 (F1) Unknown 0 0 698 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4050	53.6% Above average	Read 354 Write 107 Mixed 179 47% 214 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 78.4 4K Mixed 13.2 99% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 80.9 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 25.8 40% 73.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 80%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 235GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 56820992 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5848 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 76183482 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9944 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1188 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 94 4295163983 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 54 639303717 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11807 (C2) HDA temperature 37 46 98784247845 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 116 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 118781615544178 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11532850384 (F2) Unknown 100 253 332857826099	67.9% Good	Read 89.7 Write 146 Mixed 103 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.27 4K Mixed 0.71 209% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-054.A00LF 99U5471-056.A00LF 16GB 386 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	58% Above average	MC Read 21.1 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 18.5 59% 20.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 14.5 SC Mixed 17.2 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 71.7 56% 71.7 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 61%

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Gaming 6%

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Desktop 59%

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Workstation 6%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2 - $51

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	487x
Core i3-4160Intel $79Bench 55%, 48,506 samples	269x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	265x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	352x
HD 4400 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 64,721 samples	338x
HD Graphics (G4 Pentium/Celeron 1.05/1.15 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 43,454 samples	220x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	113x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	87x
SU650 120GBAdata $14Bench 63%, 42,288 samples	53x

RAM
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	84x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	62x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	59x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $288

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