Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 92.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	105% 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	50.8% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Gigabyte B250M-DS3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '17 at 01:36
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 775 78% 635 Pts	64-Core 771 48% 771 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8591) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 149 Parallax 126 113% 138 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 130 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin MKNSSDCR240GB-G2 240GB 120 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 139GB free (System drive) Firmware: 607ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (14^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 95 95 43599476 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 -40664750347085 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 835 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 0 0 147 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1 (B6) Unknown 100 100 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 35 48 64427655203 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 64427655203 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 43599476 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 43599476 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 43599476 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 47244640256 (E9) Unknown 0 0 47770 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9740 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9740 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7778	50.8% Above average	Read 211 Write 143 Mixed 147 37% 167 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 14.1 107% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 18.9 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 7.39 21% 42.9 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 81%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 162226448 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1171 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13456015 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3110 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (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 67 63 571932705 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13380 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 55834574881 (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 120186069844724 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11536319138 (F2) Unknown 100 253 107399573736	71.7% Very good	Read 136 Write 114 Mixed 134 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.14 68% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 96%
WD WD3200BEVS-16VAT0 320GB 1,492 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 298GB free Firmware: 11.01A11 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 184 1641 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1856 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9105 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1563 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 160 160 120094 (C2) HDA temperature 116 96 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	33.6% Below average	Read 60.3 Write 56.3 Mixed 56.1 43% 57.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.34 94% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 37%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 177GB free Firmware: 0005DEM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 187439640 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4311 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 79143619 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16864 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1204 (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 54 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 22 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 101070 (C2) HDA temperature 32 46 73014444064 (C5) Current pending sector count 118 99 187439640 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 -137486198112256 (F1) Unknown 100 253 58372900525194 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1480565846 (FE) Unknown 100 100 2980934926	42.5% Average	Read 80.8 Write 67.5 Mixed 56.8 51% 68.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.61 4K Mixed 0.23 53% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 4x4GB 1,126 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.3% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 22.1 72% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 29.6 SC Mixed 23.5 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 101%

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

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Gaming 25%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H - $190

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	881x
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	696x
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	166x
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 $40Bench 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 $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