Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: 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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	32.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110523
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 16 '16 at 23:49
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 5.8 GHz, turbo 8.05 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 122 2-Core 243 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 455 61% 454 Pts	64-Core 445 28% 445 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6191 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 117 Parallax 120 98% 119 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 103 Splatting 84.7 77% 95.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX200 960GB-$80 1,195 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 750GB free Firmware: MU01.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 115 (A3) Unknown 100 100 1364 (94) Unknown 100 100 1265 (95) Unknown 100 100 13 (96) Unknown 100 100 0 (97) Unknown 100 100 9 (A4) Unknown 100 100 395 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37542965674013 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4702 (F2) Unknown 100 100 411 (F5) Unknown 100 100 4665 (F6) Unknown 100 100 5060 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	50.4% Above average	Read 345 Write 208 Mixed 176 54% 243 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 37.8 4K Mixed 10.7 76% 25.6 MB/s	DQ Read 30.9 DQ Write 56.6 DQ Mixed 11.5 18% 33 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 100%
OCZ AGILITY3 60GB 14,293 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 7823157 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -41437844458219 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 694 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 116 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7823157 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7823157 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7823157 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8869 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7205 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7205 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11665	32.9% Below average	Read 165 Write 56.9 Mixed 88 23% 103 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 53.1 4K Mixed 10.2 73% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 25.9 DQ Write 59.7 DQ Mixed 9.37 17% 31.7 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 32.9% Great: 51%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 20GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2082 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 419 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 57 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5012893382	61.3% Good	Read 319 Write 316 Mixed 281 68% 305 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 42 4K Mixed 19 92% 30.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29.6 DQ Write 56.3 DQ Mixed 18.7 21% 34.8 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 588GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 39478990 (03) Spinup time 96 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5152 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 145867485 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17374 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 13 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2169 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 83 83 17 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 151 (BE) vendor-specific 73 45 706347035 (C2) HDA temperature 27 55 60129542171 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 26 39478990 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 14413910262042 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2068317598 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4000069302	61.3% Good	Read 104 Write 110 Mixed 30 59% 81.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.36 82% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	59.6% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 19.2 58% 20.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 18.4 52% 18 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 97%

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

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	366x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	238x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	102x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	94x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	88x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	41x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	36x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	385x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	289x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	170x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

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 $40	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