Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 81.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	12GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 12GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 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-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 12 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120320
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 12 '17 at 12:53
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	IRL-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 116 2-Core 227 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 405 8-Core 537 60% 471 Pts	64-Core 552 34% 552 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 158 Parallax 138 125% 150 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 145 Splatting 114 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41320RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11605 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1839 (A5) Unknown 100 100 146078040731 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 32 (A9) Unknown 100 100 473 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 46 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 72 309238431776 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1486075461978 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3404 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13685 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11404 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3103 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.9% Very good	Read 494 Write 312 Mixed 281 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 46.3 4K Mixed 17.5 89% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 42.1 74% 146 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 108%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2235256 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 1667 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (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 68 68 538050592 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 77309411360 (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 27474905792512 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2906562 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1711673	99.1% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 170 Mixed 125 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.78 218% 2.3 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3x4GB 39,448 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 3 of 4 slots used 12GB DIMM Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	42.3% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 12.6 39% 13.8 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 15.4 SC Mixed 14.3 41% 14.2 GB/s	Latency 68.3 59% 68.3 ns
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 57%

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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	365x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	237x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 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	27x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	385x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	289x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	168x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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