Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3

Performance Results


Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	46.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	36.2% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 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-Z68P-DS3 (all builds)
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20111012
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 09 '17 at 11:51
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing below expectations (40^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 3.6 GHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	70.1% Very good	Memory 79.3 1-Core 90.5 2-Core 178 67% 116 Pts	4-Core 352 8-Core 352 47% 352 Pts	64-Core 343 21% 343 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 470-$126 94,030 User benchmarks, average bench 40% Gigabyte(1458 22D7) CLim: 1230 MHz, MLim: 1650 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 16.11.3 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	46.9% Average	Lighting 58.5 Reflection 63.3 Parallax 74.5 48% 65.4 fps	MRender 61.3 Gravity 54.4 Splatting 52.3 45% 56 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 47%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD320 256GB-$419 137 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 223GB free Firmware: 5.6.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8681233 (05) Reallocated sector count 91 91 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 125335735644399 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 390 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 318 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 69 64429031456 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8681233 (C4) Reallocation count 91 91 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8681233 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8681233 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 8589934593 (E9) Unknown 0 0 885 (EA) Unknown 0 0 691 (F1) Unknown 0 0 691 (F2) Unknown 0 0 783	67.6% Good	Read 511 Write 213 Mixed 229 69% 317 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 62.3 4K Mixed 15.2 90% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 148 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 48.3 74% 138 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 92%
Kingdian S200 60GB 737 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 56GB free Firmware: P0831A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 137 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 192 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 118 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 3 (A4) Unknown 100 100 13974 (A5) Unknown 100 100 27 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 108 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2019 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 16083 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5310 (F5) Unknown 100 100 23954	37.4% Below average	Read 259 Write 84.8 Mixed 97.5 32% 147 MB/s	4K Read 18.7 4K Write 59.9 4K Mixed 2.92 64% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 84.8 DQ Mixed 18.2 36% 73.2 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 37.4% Great: 69%
Kingdian S200 60GB 737 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 56GB free Firmware: P0831A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 119 (A2) Unknown 100 100 1 (A3) Unknown 100 100 2 (A4) Unknown 100 100 44 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 503 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 60 (F2) Unknown 100 100 42 (F5) Unknown 100 100 64	37.2% Below average	Read 246 Write 82.9 Mixed 108 32% 146 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 60.4 4K Mixed 2.81 67% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 95.7 DQ Write 82.2 DQ Mixed 18.9 33% 65.6 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 69%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 10185087 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 61125974586323 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 314 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 63 64428638236 (C2) HDA temperature 28 63 64428638236 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10185087 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10185087 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10185087 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 92 92 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 36265 (EA) Unknown 0 0 25047 (F1) Unknown 0 0 25047 (F2) Unknown 0 0 38005	36.2% Below average	Read 127 Write 88.8 Mixed 96.7 23% 104 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 12.8 76% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 72 DQ Write 88.8 DQ Mixed 26.4 35% 62.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 73%
Seagate ST9250315AS 250GB-$20 12,691 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 20GB free Firmware: P003HPM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 87 226467445 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7465 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 38 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 473750763 (09) Power-on hours count 33 33 58946 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2308 (B7) Unknown 100 253 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2116 (BC) Unknown 100 97 4295033244 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 31 26659333341212 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 384665 (C2) HDA temperature 28 69 47244640284 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 37 226467445 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 38 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	24.1% Poor	Read 39.4 Write 44.4 Mixed 35.3 30% 39.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.36 75% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1x8GB 168,538 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	31.5% Below average	MC Read 10.4 MC Write 10.9 MC Mixed 9.9 30% 10.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 9.1 SC Mixed 8.7 26% 9.13 GB/s	Latency 81.8 49% 81.8 ns
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 67%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 74%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	99x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	65x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	61x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	26x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	26x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	24x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	14x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	126x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	111x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	63x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

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