Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 1% Tree trunk	Desktop 61% Destroyer	Workstation 1% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	1.65% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (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	4GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and although it's sufficient for most games, some will benefit from up to 8GB of RAM. 4GB is also enough for modest file and system caches which allow for a responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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-Z77-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	2.1 GB free of 4 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120821
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '18 at 04:22
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3340-$278 8,792 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3340 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 87.2 1-Core 91.7 2-Core 181 70% 120 Pts	4-Core 346 8-Core 345 46% 346 Pts	64-Core 347 22% 347 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz) 146,665 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1.5GB Driver: igdumdim32.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4276 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	1.65% Terrible	Lighting 1.7 Reflection 1.73 Parallax 1.31 1% 1.58 fps	MRender 3.29 Gravity 1.07 Splatting 3.39 2% 2.58 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.65% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 633GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 100 45346192 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 508 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 273198 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5012 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 472 (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 77 61 387317783 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9073 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 73014444055 (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 122977798590411 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2608870183 (F2) Unknown 100 253 662413959	73.9% Very good	Read 131 Write 127 Mixed 89.1 86% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.23 92% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 498GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 100 228109864 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 8 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 169321 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (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 74 65 437846042 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 108 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 81604378650 (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 110264695390228 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2870403550 (F2) Unknown 100 253 212181245	82% Excellent	Read 143 Write 142 Mixed 28.1 76% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.24 91% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3750640NS 750GB-$38 10,520 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 472GB free Firmware: 3.AEL Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 73 184135919 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 519 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 20 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 179704912 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22903 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 505085982 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 73014444062 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 71 57 159447793 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	39.1% Below average	Read 66.8 Write 69.3 Mixed 38.2 43% 58.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 0.88 4K Mixed 0.37 86% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 42%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA660 500GB 17,638 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 278GB free Firmware: JP2OA41A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 95 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 100 93 (03) Spinup time 117 100 17192517830 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1375 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 65537 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 100 30 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2841 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1357 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 99 99 131071 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BC) Unknown 100 89 2001 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 55 404226072 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1376 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1376 (C2) HDA temperature 250 133 193274576920 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 647	68.8% Good	Read 121 Write 119 Mixed 46.1 70% 95.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.42 101% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 240GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 14980624 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1187 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 280033411 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15727 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1178 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1661599840 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65543 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 61 471400475 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6031 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 64424509467 (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	63.1% Good	Read 115 Write 105 Mixed 88.4 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.1 56% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Hynix HMT325U6BFR8C-H9 Micron 8JTF25664AZ-1G4D1 4GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1333, 1333 MHz 2048, 2048 MB Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.8% Poor	MC Read 9.4 MC Write 9.3 MC Mixed 8.1 26% 8.93 GB/s	SC Read 9.1 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 9.3 26% 9.27 GB/s	Latency 70.3 57% 70.3 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 51%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

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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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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