Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	122% 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	60.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110616
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 04:45
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 111 2-Core 209 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 346 8-Core 345 46% 346 Pts	64-Core 349 22% 349 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2815 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 211 Parallax 205 129% 192 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 185 Splatting 132 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 187 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (A5) Unknown 100 100 111683305657 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 48 223338299432 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 261997133887 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 530 (EA) Unknown 100 100 862 (F1) Unknown 253 253 596 (F2) Unknown 253 253 346 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.7% Good	Read 437 Write 248 Mixed 134 60% 273 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 85.1 4K Mixed 3.96 93% 39.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.3 DQ Write 91.4 DQ Mixed 2.16 18% 40.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 78%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$63 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 276GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 20074 (03) Spinup time 112 105 7375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1369 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 33142 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1300 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 278 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 897890 (C2) HDA temperature 120 100 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 184 0	43.4% Average	Read 78.7 Write 72.4 Mixed 77 57% 76 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	52% Above average	MC Read 17.3 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 19 SC Mixed 16.8 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52% Great: 61%

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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 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	367x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	239x
Core i7-2600Intel $187Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	103x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	96x
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 $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	386x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	291x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	170x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16