Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 41% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 82.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	44.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 14:17
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3470-$59 223,595 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3470 CPU @ 3.20GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.1% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 99.5 2-Core 200 77% 131 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 395 54% 399 Pts	64-Core 392 24% 392 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 71%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz) 146,665 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4358 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	1.76% Terrible	Lighting 1.8 Reflection 1.81 Parallax 1.38 2% 1.66 fps	MRender 3.71 Gravity 1.1 Splatting 3.57 2% 2.79 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.76% Great: 2%
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3741) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.4% Good	Lighting 78 Reflection 75.8 Parallax 65.7 64% 73.2 fps	MRender 68.4 Gravity 69.4 Splatting 70.8 57% 69.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 57469872 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 33552284525355 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6345 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 167 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 34 64426737693 (C2) HDA temperature 29 34 64426737693 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 57469872 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 57469872 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 57469872 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 94489280513 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17079 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10668 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10668 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9918 (F4) Unknown 96 96 8585347	44.2% Average	Read 279 Write 119 Mixed 168 41% 188 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 67.9 4K Mixed 10.9 84% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 23.2 DQ Write 56.3 DQ Mixed 14.2 18% 31.2 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 170GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 93 1856 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8502 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 183575597 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19100 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 7055 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 44 44 56 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 52 454295579 (C2) HDA temperature 27 48 47244640283 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 19 1856 (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 -101812199736217 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1975761650 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3542120079	55.5% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 97.1 Mixed 42.1 58% 78.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.42 84% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 88%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 2TB 2,298 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 868GB free, PID 50a1 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	34.2% Below average	Read 95 Write 87.8 Mixed 47.1 93% 76.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.2 21% 0.38 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 49%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5403-074.A00LF 2x4GB 257 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	61.4% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 20 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 18.4 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 57.4 70% 57.4 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H - $280

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	506x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	371x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	279x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	140x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	120x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	104x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	63x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	48x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	44x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	56x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	56x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	41x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $560

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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