Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 77.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	61% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	61% 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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte B250M-DS3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170209
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '17 at 17:08
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	38%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	77.9% Very good	Memory 90.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 232 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 367 8-Core 436 52% 401 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3718) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 76.1 Parallax 71.2 62% 74.5 fps	MRender 72.4 Gravity 70.5 Splatting 72.3 59% 71.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 191GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3K87RA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (64) Unknown 100 100 32864 (65) Unknown 100 100 5824 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 9 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1345 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 100 115965624346 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 61 (EA) Unknown 100 100 34 (F1) Unknown 100 100 58 (F2) Unknown 100 100 24 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	61% Good	Read 453 Write 251 Mixed 250 70% 318 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 43.2 4K Mixed 6.62 65% 23.9 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 5.43 59% 144 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 100 253 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 9 (C2) HDA temperature 116 112 27 (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	71.4% Very good	Read 115 Write 134 Mixed 154 102% 134 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.35 111% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 109%
Adata DashDrive UV150 USB 3.0 32GB-$15 1,414 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 1GB free, PID dc1a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	23.2% Poor	Read 105 Write 22.9 Mixed 32.6 53% 53.4 MB/s	4K Read 5.33 4K Write 0.58 4K Mixed 0.58 59% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 23.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-043.A00G 2x8GB 519 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	73% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 21.9 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 27.3 SC Mixed 19.9 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 66.4 60% 66.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 77%

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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	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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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