Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU, SSD
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 (all builds)
Memory	5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, ,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120320
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 13 '17 at 04:29
Run Duration	208 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 i5-3550-$335 23,599 User benchmarks, average bench 69% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 92.2 1-Core 97.7 2-Core 195 75% 128 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 361 47% 353 Pts	64-Core 374 23% 374 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti-$188 42,397 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Asus(1043 8390) 1GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 385.41 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 15% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$35 11,469 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 403GB free Firmware: SD28 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 616977 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2316 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 545137000 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15083 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2684 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 61 555417630 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 374 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46872 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 33 616977 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3	34.4% Below average	Read 66.7 Write 53 Mixed 55.9 44% 58.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.28 76% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 58%
Hitachi HTS545050B9A300 500GB-$71 21,137 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 327GB free Firmware: PB4OC64G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st 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 90194313218 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 5553 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 11438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3473 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 90740 (C2) HDA temperature 189 189 206158626845 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	23.7% Poor	Read 48.3 Write 34.2 Mixed 11 23% 31.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 0.8 4K Mixed 0.25 60% 0.49 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 23.7% Great: 45%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 142GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 912 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2462 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 564 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 159 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3447 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 31 (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 200 152 7107 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	76.2% Very good	Read 136 Write 130 Mixed 103 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 109%
Toshiba MK2565GSXN 250GB 654 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 128GB free (System drive) Firmware: GH101M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1166 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6430 (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 76 76 9627 (0A) Spinup retry count 228 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6415 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 190 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 33 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 229564 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 206159413280 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 52 (DE) Loaded hours 87 87 5334 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 320 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	34.8% Below average	Read 59.4 Write 62.1 Mixed 12.1 32% 44.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.11 4K Write 0.22 4K Mixed 0.11 21% 0.15 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	52.6% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 16.7 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 16.3 SC Mixed 16 45% 15.7 GB/s	Latency 63.7 63% 63.7 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 65%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3H-B3 - $110

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	102x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	75x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	51x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	26x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	19x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	18x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	17x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	13x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	109x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	70x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	57x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $573

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 $179	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