Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 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 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 78.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	72.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Gigabyte B250M-DS3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170209
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 20:47
Run Duration	271 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7500-$89 149,467 User benchmarks, average bench 67% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	78.6% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 112 2-Core 221 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 428 56% 424 Pts	64-Core 449 28% 449 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 78%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8597) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2126 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	72.6% Very good	Lighting 84.2 Reflection 98.5 Parallax 79.7 69% 87.5 fps	MRender 98.7 Gravity 94.6 Splatting 99.7 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2588 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 215 (B1) Unknown 98 98 31 (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 73 51 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21945647610	101% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 405 Mixed 417 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 80 4K Mixed 39.5 140% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 23.4 93% 209 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 134%
Seagate ST2000VM003-1CT164 2TB 16,094 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: SC23 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 198034628 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1853 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2368405 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1692 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 162 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 87 87 13 (BE) vendor-specific 81 60 319553555 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1988 (C2) HDA temperature 19 40 47244640275 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56.3% Above average	Read 96.9 Write 99.4 Mixed 94.9 73% 97.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.14 63% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 100%
Seagate ST2000VM003-1CT164 2TB 16,094 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: SC23 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222542504 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 16325 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 30425996827 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28556 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 249 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 130 (BE) vendor-specific 79 54 353107989 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16475 (C2) HDA temperature 21 46 47244640277 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	66.3% Good	Read 103 Write 129 Mixed 85.9 79% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.14 53% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 100%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 246 134 6658 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1110 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1862 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 174 (10) Unknown 0 200 14227567012 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1108 (C2) HDA temperature 127 106 25 (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	81.2% Excellent	Read 149 Write 134 Mixed 139 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.52 4K Mixed 0.31 107% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 112%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8GB 30,139 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 4GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	11.2% Very poor	Read 20.6 Write 7.18 Mixed 11.6 15% 13.1 MB/s	4K Read 5.62 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 1.47 130% 2.94 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 11.2% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB 200 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.8% Good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 21 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 24.9 SC Mixed 21.2 58% 20.5 GB/s	Latency 72.7 55% 72.7 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 87%

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

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Gaming 25%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 21%

Surfboard

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H - $343

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	880x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	844x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	559x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	694x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	529x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	326x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	166x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	118x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	112x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	89x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	84x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	68x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $582

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