Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	86.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.9% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Gigabyte B250M-DS3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161103
Uptime	4.4 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '17 at 08:34
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 87.5 1-Core 122 2-Core 244 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 418 55% 415 Pts	64-Core 448 28% 448 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 118 Parallax 117 90% 115 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 102 Splatting 92.3 79% 96.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 82GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 190 100 446 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 439 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1791 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1857 (A9) Unknown 100 100 34 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1830 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 231928234021 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 5 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 61 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 167913 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7794 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6056	68.9% Good	Read 493 Write 204 Mixed 286 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 3.95 104% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 19.4 61% 131 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 642GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138545583 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2814 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 38668866485 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8776 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 546 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 524297 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 47 672792613 (C2) HDA temperature 37 53 64424509477 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 23 138545583 (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 -112485193474017 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3276921285 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1283439243	57.9% Above average	Read 106 Write 95.8 Mixed 99.3 76% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.52 123% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 16G-D4-2400-MR 2x8GB 3,744 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.3% Good	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 20.2 62% 21.9 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 18.7 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 85%

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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 4,616 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	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 $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