Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 23% Surfboard	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 18% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 71.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	33.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte B250M-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	3.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171108
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 04 '18 at 17:41
Run Duration	4789 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	71.2% Very good	Memory 78 1-Core 96.3 2-Core 203 71% 126 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 376 50% 374 Pts	64-Core 384 24% 384 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% MSI(1462 3201) 2GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	33.9% Below average	Lighting 44.2 Reflection 41.7 Parallax 37.6 36% 41.2 fps	MRender 37.2 Gravity 38.3 Splatting 33.8 30% 36.5 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 36%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	5.54% Terrible	Lighting 6.07 Reflection 8.38 Parallax 5.84 5% 6.77 fps	MRender 5.43 Gravity 5.43 Splatting 12 7% 7.62 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.54% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 500GB-$21 168,449 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 466GB free Firmware: 0001SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 82 183617052 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 841 (05) Reallocated sector count 95 95 864 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 8690339086 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 41510858918750 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 838 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 4656 (BC) Unknown 100 97 8 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 47 9195683875 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 130 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11212 (C2) HDA temperature 35 53 -140737488355293 (C5) Current pending sector count 85 1 312 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 85 1 312 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 10 (F0) Head flying hours 97 97 52450140621608 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8493576057 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17279238905 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	27.6% Poor	Read 0.02 Write 96.3 Mixed 97.3 50% 64.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 0.64 4K Mixed 0.13 42% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 27.6% Great: 61%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 325GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 168 4058 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2213 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20805 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2202 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 265 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 122 122 236875 (C2) HDA temperature 110 105 37 (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	69.8% Good	Read 134 Write 109 Mixed 115 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.18 86% 1 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 35GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 192706541 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2263 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 178448932 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12192 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1825 (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 65 58 605683747 (C2) HDA temperature 35 42 55834574883 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 26 192706541 (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 14551349216626 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1533244112 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3605519746	51.4% Above average	Read 87.3 Write 91.8 Mixed 67 61% 82 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.34 76% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 68%
Toshiba MK1652GSX 160GB-$30 2,145 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 17GB free Firmware: LV010M Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1057 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7721 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 679 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 11935 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2947 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 368 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 164 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 66970 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 244813791263 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 665 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 38 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 597 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 41 (DE) Loaded hours 90 90 4150 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 327 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	19.1% Very poor	Read 32.3 Write 33.9 Mixed 31.6 24% 32.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.3 70% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 1x8GB-$25 15,542 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	34.1% Below average	MC Read 13.3 MC Write 12.7 MC Mixed 9.6 34% 11.9 GB/s	SC Read 8.7 SC Write 8.9 SC Mixed 6.2 23% 7.93 GB/s	Latency 84.3 47% 84.3 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 50%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-D3H - $85

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	497x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	488x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	433x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	319x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	296x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	248x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	86x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	76x
A400 120GBKingston $30Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	46x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	65x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 75%, 46,470 samples	36x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $324

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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