Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	126% 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	53% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (76%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130516
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Nov 05 '17 at 08:44
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	76%

PC Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	68.6% Good	Memory 72 1-Core 110 2-Core 187 70% 123 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 545 55% 448 Pts	64-Core 530 33% 530 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 4471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2800 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 203 Parallax 205 137% 192 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 187 Splatting 130 121% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 312GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	153% Outstanding	Read 1,296 Write 980 Mixed 1,046 246% 1,107 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 42 4K Mixed 33.7 104% 33.8 MB/s	DQ Read 37.3 DQ Write 329 DQ Mixed 162 131% 176 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 153% Great: 254%
Kingston SSDNow KC300 120GB-$80 2,344 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 507KC4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 106 13095871 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 44470091383771 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3342 (0D) Soft read error rate 46 46 139487665968063 (64) Unknown 0 0 57090 (AA) Unknown 0 0 3360 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 510 (B1) Unknown 0 0 16 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 41 55837261852 (C2) HDA temperature 28 41 55837261852 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 13095871 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 106 106 -48657684496384 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 13095871 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 13095871 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 88 88 0 (E8) Unknown 0 0 13 (E9) Unknown 0 0 36898 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13805 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13805 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17579	53% Above average	Read 477 Write 170 Mixed 201 62% 282 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 54.8 4K Mixed 8.24 66% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 17.2 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 42.1 51% 84.4 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 86%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 174 7941 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 721 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 742 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 231 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5736 (C2) HDA temperature 125 112 27 (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 0	71.5% Very good	Read 120 Write 129 Mixed 126 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.29 94% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 321GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 81615392 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9508 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12172984 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10338 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4356 (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 74 54 437387290 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1253 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 69794 (C2) HDA temperature 26 46 55834574874 (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 60799557045285 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4969453842 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9986308248	93.9% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 161 Mixed 120 111% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.28 98% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 112%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 24GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 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 100 100 236 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 66 10030 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5279 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5690 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2431 (B5) Unknown 100 100 856892 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 14 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979347480 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 17 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5323	41.8% Average	Read 67.9 Write 77.4 Mixed 71.7 54% 72.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.3 89% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5474-036.A00LF 99U5474-036.A00LF KHX1600C9D3/4GX KHX1600C9D3/4GX 16GB 1600, 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	54.2% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 16.5 55% 19.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 14.8 45% 15.9 GB/s	Latency 96.9 41% 96.9 ns

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 66%

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Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	462x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	354x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	290x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	154x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	102x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	48x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	42x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	32x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $157

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 $184	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) $35	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