Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120320
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '17 at 01:40
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	19%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 97.9 1-Core 119 2-Core 236 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 465 63% 469 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.4% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 115 Parallax 98.4 84% 106 fps	MRender 91.8 Gravity 94.2 Splatting 99.7 78% 95.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 677 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 339 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 65 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2431151025
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 62GB free Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 4975948 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -126177549213411 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 304 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 235 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (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 120 120 4975948 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4975948 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4975948 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8488 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7216 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7216 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11575	41.3% Average	Read 196 Write 118 Mixed 139 33% 151 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 49.7 4K Mixed 11.8 71% 27 MB/s	DQ Read 128 DQ Write 125 DQ Mixed 33 51% 95.5 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 61%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$174 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 677GB free Firmware: CC13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 118863712 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 4081 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 68303260 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 6026 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1962 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 67 504692766 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 293 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 4719 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 27 118863712 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 118803090387072 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3917708427 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3157553529	56.1% Above average	Read 93.4 Write 102 Mixed 89 71% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.37 85% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 73%
Lexar JumpDrive S25 USB 3.0 32GB-$13 3,792 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 24GB free, PID a838 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	23.1% Poor	Read 93.8 Write 30 Mixed 47.5 62% 57.1 MB/s	4K Read 3.65 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.55 56% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 23.1% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	78% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 25.5 78% 27.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 22 SC Mixed 22.3 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 46.5 86% 46.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 97%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 - $176

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	179x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	144x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	110x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	41x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	35x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	20x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	187x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	125x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	90x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $702

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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