Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	91% 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	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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20121024
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 24 '17 at 07:37
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500 82,538 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2500 CPU @ 3.30GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 5.9 GHz, turbo 6.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 100 2-Core 201 76% 131 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 400 53% 399 Pts	64-Core 408 25% 408 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3753) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 116 Parallax 96.8 95% 110 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 744GB free (System drive) Firmware: JKAOA3GB Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 59 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 100 103 (03) Spinup time 120 100 51580830269 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3272 (05) Reallocated sector count 77 66 32899604 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 100 35 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15009 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3242 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 1 1 16777215 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 196608 (BC) Unknown 100 93 373760726648 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 539099170 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3273 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3273 (C2) HDA temperature 176 117 223339741218 (C4) Reallocation count 81 81 532 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 92 102 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6	51.8% Above average	Read 90.2 Write 90.4 Mixed 77.9 65% 86.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.34 88% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 69%
Hitachi HTS541616J9SA00 160GB-$82 3,253 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 87GB free Firmware: SB4OC70P Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 140 140 38654705664 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 9181 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 14910 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 5229 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 791 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 74808 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 244814577699 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 28 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	15.4% Very poor	Read 32.5 Write 20.8 Mixed 24.4 20% 25.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.22 62% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 15.4% Great: 25%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/8G 16GB 2,175 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	58.5% Above average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 21.5 MC Mixed 19.1 58% 20.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 17.7 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 63%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H - $333

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	522x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	435x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	287x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	116x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	103x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	92x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	66x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	44x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	43x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	38x

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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $665

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