Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	54.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	45.1% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120321
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '17 at 12:52
Run Duration	291 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570 104,858 User benchmarks, average bench 65% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 91.7 1-Core 105 2-Core 209 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 401 53% 396 Pts	64-Core 405 25% 405 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 75%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	54.4% Above average	Lighting 68 Reflection 71.8 Parallax 63.4 55% 67.7 fps	MRender 75.1 Gravity 64.8 Splatting 56.2 52% 65.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Techman SCSH01 60GB 56GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -28527172775718 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 261 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 454 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2703 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2254 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2254 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3525	22.7% Poor	Read 157 Write 55.2 Mixed 77.8 21% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 9.1 4K Mixed 9.38 41% 11.4 MB/s	DQ Read 25.4 DQ Write 12.6 DQ Mixed 9.64 10% 15.9 MB/s

Techman SCSH01 64GB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.09 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 403 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 629 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 365 (AE) Unknown 100 100 182 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 52 3407909 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 0 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1465 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1276	45.1% Average	Read 337 Write 162 Mixed 220 53% 240 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 39 4K Mixed 12.3 65% 23.5 MB/s	DQ Read 21.7 DQ Write 87.9 DQ Mixed 13.9 23% 41.1 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 78%
SanDisk SSD 64GB-$56 3,862 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1GB free Firmware: 2.0.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 776 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 386 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 50 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 50 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 50 (F1) Unknown 100 100 989691950 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2452982157	19.8% Very poor	Read 215 Write 35.2 Mixed 75.3 23% 108 MB/s	4K Read 11.4 4K Write 10.8 4K Mixed 4.77 29% 9 MB/s	DQ Read 17.7 DQ Write 11.2 DQ Mixed 4.56 6% 11.2 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 19.8% Great: 48%
WD WD10EAVS-00D7B1 1TB 26,179 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 232GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 159 6891 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2959 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19467 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1093 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2946 (C2) HDA temperature 121 102 29 (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	38.2% Below average	Read 66.1 Write 66.7 Mixed 24.2 38% 52.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.33 89% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 51%
WD Blue 2.5" 320GB (2009)-$80 42,987 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 58GB free Firmware: 11.01A11 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 186 1616 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2541 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2461 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1860 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 184 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35901 (C2) HDA temperature 118 93 29 (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	28.8% Poor	Read 52.5 Write 47.6 Mixed 24.4 31% 41.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.26 72% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 41%
WD WD800JD-75MSA3 80GB-$105 18,464 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 37GB free Firmware: 10.01E04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 160 2841 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1377 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5447 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 979 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 29 (C2) HDA temperature 114 89 29 (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	31.1% Below average	Read 54.9 Write 53.1 Mixed 39.7 37% 49.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.24 67% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	52.6% Above average	MC Read 18.2 MC Write 19 MC Mixed 16 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 17.1 SC Mixed 17.1 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 64.6 62% 64.6 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 61%

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	366x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	238x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	102x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	94x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	88x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	41x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	36x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	385x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	289x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	170x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

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 $184	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