Gigabyte GA-P61A-D3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	27.6% 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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-P61A-D3 (all builds)
Memory	5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140304
Uptime	4.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 05 '18 at 14:02
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570 104,858 User benchmarks, average bench 65% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 91.2 1-Core 95.9 2-Core 201 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 349 8-Core 376 48% 363 Pts	64-Core 376 23% 376 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 75%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Asus(1043 8569) 2GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1652 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	27.6% Poor	Lighting 34.5 Reflection 32.9 Parallax 29.4 28% 32.3 fps	MRender 35.6 Gravity 30.9 Splatting 31.3 26% 32.6 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 27.6% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 509GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 172 1975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 309 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2296 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 309 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 78 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 232 (C2) HDA temperature 107 94 36 (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 200 200 260 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	76% Very good	Read 136 Write 129 Mixed 123 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.3 100% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 109%
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 32GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1807 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 83 82 5327 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7569 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 27994 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3919 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 201864577057 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 29 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7636	76.2% Very good	Read 126 Write 140 Mixed 123 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.36 112% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 77%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 78,181 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 2 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 16 45% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 62%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 4%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P61A-D3

CPU
Core i5-3570IntelBench 65%, 104,858 samples	67x
Core i5-3470Intel $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	57x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	46x

GPU
GeForce GT 610NvidiaBench 2%, 62,458 samples	32x
GeForce GT 630NvidiaBench 4%, 60,212 samples	29x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	26x

SSD
WDS2 40G2G0A-00JH30 240GBWDCBench 44%, 768 samples	21x
SSD 120GBGigabyte $31Bench 70%, 13,685 samples	10x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	8x

RAM
KVR16N11/8 1x8GBKingstonBench 29%, 181 samples	13x
KVR16N11/8 2x8GBKingstonBench 52%, 276 samples	10x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	8x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $184	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