Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	13.4% 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	64.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110415
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 23 '17 at 13:51
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	2%

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 i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 96.9 2-Core 182 74% 124 Pts	4-Core 338 8-Core 472 51% 405 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5830 2,946 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Sapphire(174B E140) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	13.4% Very poor	Lighting 18.2 Reflection 12.5 Parallax 16.8 15% 15.8 fps	MRender 10.6 Gravity 13.7 Splatting 14.4 11% 12.9 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 369GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 5 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 11 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 70 68 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 245839326	64.3% Good	Read 394 Write 310 Mixed 320 76% 342 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 56.1 4K Mixed 17 95% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 30.6 DQ Write 45.3 DQ Mixed 22.7 22% 32.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 134%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 594GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 172 4200 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 537 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4523 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 535 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 140 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 398 (C2) HDA temperature 113 106 34 (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 12	63.4% Good	Read 109 Write 112 Mixed 107 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.06 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.35 126% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 76%
JetFlash Transcend 16GB 14,782 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 10GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	9.86% Terrible	Read 27 Write 11.3 Mixed 13.4 19% 17.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.83 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.69 66% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 9.86% Great: 33%

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 (82^nd percentile)	51.4% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 17.8 MC Mixed 15.9 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 17.4 SC Mixed 16.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 65%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3-B3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	67x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	54x
Core i7-2600Intel $195Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	21x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	17x
GTX 1660Nvidia $143Bench 68%, 230,793 samples	12x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x
MX500 500GBCrucial $55Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	8x
Premier SP550 120GBAdata $45Bench 76%, 22,057 samples	8x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	82x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	28x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	24x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $463

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