Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	55.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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-Z77-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131113
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 09 '16 at 21:19
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-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 i5-3450S-$130 1,491 User benchmarks, average bench 69% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3450S CPU @ 2.80GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 91.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 199 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 389 8-Core 390 52% 390 Pts	64-Core 390 24% 390 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 75%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390-$325 82,117 User benchmarks, average bench 50% MSI(1462 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 45% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 568GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1387 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 173 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12886802450 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 23 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 88 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 54 231929479206 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 12884901891 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 653 (EA) Unknown 100 100 779 (F1) Unknown 253 253 578 (F2) Unknown 253 253 790 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	50.4% Above average	Read 251 Write 179 Mixed 180 45% 203 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 35.3 4K Mixed 16.1 75% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 192 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 39.9 62% 120 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 107%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17438 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1496 (B1) Unknown 92 92 77 (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 58 46 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 150 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11642788769	55.1% Above average	Read 489 Write 110 Mixed 160 55% 253 MB/s	4K Read 21.1 4K Write 51.9 4K Mixed 9.3 71% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 8.48 54% 129 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 391GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 181467248 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2072 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 58 56 369419529297 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15085 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 885 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 63 52 622985253 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 136 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 58 58 84548 (C2) HDA temperature 37 48 55834574885 (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 26938034888269 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24169839937 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33677036456	72.6% Very good	Read 131 Write 122 Mixed 147 101% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.23 70% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 114%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 198GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 223 220 8825 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3510 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 37 37 46470 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1643 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 232 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3507 (C2) HDA temperature 107 91 43 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	52.8% Above average	Read 110 Write 73.8 Mixed 66.9 62% 83.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.27 99% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1333EL Series 2x8GB 308 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53% Above average	MC Read 18.7 MC Write 18.7 MC Mixed 16.7 52% 18 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 16.5 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 53%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 76%

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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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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $560

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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