Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	74.9% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150917
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '17 at 23:57
Run Duration	266 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790-$135 255,027 User benchmarks, average bench 71% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 108 2-Core 218 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 596 60% 490 Pts	64-Core 590 36% 590 Pts
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Gigabyte(1458 2290) ≥ 4GB Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.8.2 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	13.7% Very poor	Lighting 16.3 Reflection 14.8 Parallax 23.2 13% 18.1 fps	MRender 12.8 Gravity 15.8 Splatting 22.6 15% 17.1 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 13.7% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 1TB-$100 21,936 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 307GB free (System drive) Firmware: R040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 142 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 54 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2615 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 82 (AB) Unknown 100 100 46 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 65 (B7) Unknown 100 100 15 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 282 (C2) HDA temperature 68 54 197569216544 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 54 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 46 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9085845838 (F7) Unknown 100 100 285088491 (F8) Unknown 100 100 131568401 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4378 (D2) Unknown 100 100 854	74.9% Very good	Read 474 Write 338 Mixed 343 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 48.7 4K Mixed 24.5 92% 32.2 MB/s	DQ Read 219 DQ Write 92.8 DQ Mixed 54.6 67% 122 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 105%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 275GB free Firmware: 1A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 518 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9203 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 245 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 179 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 922 (C2) HDA temperature 114 97 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	71.9% Very good	Read 133 Write 117 Mixed 127 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.39 4K Mixed 0.35 133% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 109%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 4GB 126 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 0GB free, PID 0736 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	4.62% Terrible	Read 18.4 Write 5.36 Mixed 7.34 11% 10.4 MB/s	4K Read 3.23 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.09 15% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.62% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 28,220 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	59.1% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 21.8 MC Mixed 18.3 58% 20.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 20.1 SC Mixed 18.3 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 59.1% Great: 61%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	44x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	38x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	29x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	28x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	25x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x

SSD
Green 240GB (2018)WD $35Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	12x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
HyperX 3K 240GBKingston $70Bench 81%, 27,495 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	17x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBKingstonBench 52%, 19,522 samples	7x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	6x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $245

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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