Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 82.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.94% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	89.5% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

High background CPU (25%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte B250-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20170407
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '18 at 22:49
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	NIC-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.8% Excellent	Memory 86 1-Core 116 2-Core 223 80% 142 Pts	4-Core 429 8-Core 644 67% 537 Pts	64-Core 654 40% 654 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4550 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	6.94% Terrible	Lighting 7.43 Reflection 10.8 Parallax 7.25 6% 8.48 fps	MRender 7.67 Gravity 6.43 Splatting 15.5 9% 9.86 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.94% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Liteon L8H-256V2G 256GB 1,105 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 159GB free (System drive) Firmware: F886201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 507 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 418 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 30 (AE) Unknown 100 100 61 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 111 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 16777215 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4546 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6891 (F9) Unknown 100 100 5169	89.5% Excellent	Read 517 Write 272 Mixed 360 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 33.4 131% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 67.2 108% 207 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 92%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$28 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 109GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 143 143 67 (03) Spinup time 125 125 12896960696 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1526 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3804 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 325 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2907 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2907 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 197570068515 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	74% Very good	Read 103 Write 155 Mixed 115 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.16 64% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 213GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 185516107 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 20367998 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22085 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4359 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 58 588972064 (C2) HDA temperature 32 42 98784247840 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 19 185516107 (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 50938312140563 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2822883658 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1082466323	42.2% Average	Read 84.7 Write 62.3 Mixed 80.1 57% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.5 101% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 70%
Toshiba MQ01ABD100 1TB-$56 322,803 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 30GB free Firmware: AX001A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd 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 1729 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6037 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 7037 (0A) Spinup retry count 219 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2004 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 117 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 627 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 28855 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929282595 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 1028 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 269 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	49.3% Average	Read 98.8 Write 73.1 Mixed 67.9 60% 79.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.15 57% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-023.A00G 2x8GB 2,792 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.7% Average	MC Read 14.3 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 11.7 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 14.4 SC Mixed 13.4 38% 13.1 GB/s	Latency 71.3 56% 71.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 40.7% Great: 77%

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

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	97x
Core i5-7400Intel $91Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	84x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	78x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	44x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	12x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	11x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $300

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16