Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	72.4% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140812
Uptime	6.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '17 at 18:21
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	18%

PC Performing as expected (53^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 118 2-Core 243 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 409 8-Core 427 56% 418 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4331 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vector 128GB-$71 1,277 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20694 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1245 (AB) Unknown 80 80 18210128 (AE) Unknown 100 100 239 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 605 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 80 80 80 (F1) Unknown 100 100 20945 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18338 (F9) Unknown 100 100 2024494065	72.4% Very good	Read 436 Write 387 Mixed 403 91% 408 MB/s	4K Read 15.5 4K Write 77.1 4K Mixed 21.5 92% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 24 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 19.2 32% 58.5 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 103%
Seagate ST4000VX000-1F4168 4TB 3,084 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 378GB free Firmware: CV14 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 182734616 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 113 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 43180568725 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6791 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 605880352 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 121 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 85899345952 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56.6% Above average	Read 100 Write 97 Mixed 90.9 72% 96 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.19 65% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 106%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 212GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3264 (03) Spinup time 137 136 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1068 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 938 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 138 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 929 (C2) HDA temperature 109 96 34 (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	64.8% Good	Read 113 Write 112 Mixed 120 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.31 91% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 69%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 63GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 16957 (02) Throughput performance 55 55 11631 (03) Spinup time 89 84 3455 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3933 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14035 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 270 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3938 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 189 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 36 274879021089 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 37 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 9484 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 270 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 351365	40.6% Average	Read 84 Write 57.6 Mixed 57.8 50% 66.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.46 4K Mixed 0.17 41% 0.32 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 3,839 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	65.8% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 24.1 MC Mixed 21.3 64% 22.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 22.9 SC Mixed 20.9 59% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 58.4 68% 58.4 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 87%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 66%

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Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	462x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	354x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	290x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	154x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	102x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	48x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	42x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	32x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $157

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