Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


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 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 80.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.9% 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	42.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	5.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140117
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 27 '18 at 12:45
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

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 i5-4590-$188 151,366 User benchmarks, average bench 63% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	Memory 90.8 1-Core 109 2-Core 217 80% 139 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 404 54% 406 Pts	64-Core 398 25% 398 Pts
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Lighting 116 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 95% 112 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 103 Splatting 95.3 81% 98.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 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 100 100 114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3480 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 299 (64) Unknown 100 100 4631504 (65) Unknown 100 100 703904 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 92 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 2010 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 813 (B7) Unknown 95 95 24 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 100 188979478568 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 114 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 114 (E7) Temperature 95 95 5 (E9) Unknown 100 100 12369 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6155 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7918 (F2) Unknown 100 100 10077 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 114	42.1% Average	Read 462 Write 176 Mixed 179 59% 272 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 12.5 4K Mixed 5.36 43% 12.4 MB/s	DQ Read 17.9 DQ Write 11.5 DQ Mixed 32.1 19% 20.5 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 152GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 167 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 656 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5208 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 567 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 245 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2579 (C2) HDA temperature 100 97 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 200 193 3894 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.8% Excellent	Read 168 Write 117 Mixed 156 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.33 104% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GB 73,650 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	29.5% Poor	MC Read 9.4 MC Write 9.6 MC Mixed 8.4 26% 9.13 GB/s	SC Read 8.4 SC Write 9.5 SC Mixed 9.5 26% 9.13 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 29.5% 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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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3 - $100

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	179x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	143x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	122x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	125x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	76x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	70x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	40x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	38x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	35x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	31x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	30x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	25x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $337

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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