Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 78.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	99.2% 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	72.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131004
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 12 '18 at 01:24
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78.8% Very good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 99.1 2-Core 197 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 372 51% 378 Pts	64-Core 373 23% 373 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C304) ≥ 4GB; GTX 1070 TI CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	99.2% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 139 Parallax 129 105% 132 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 124 Splatting 104 89% 108 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate 600 240GB-$215 3,595 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 30GB free Firmware: C675 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16498 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1585 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 0 55838310429 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 98 98 3 (EA) Unknown 100 100 46638 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21768 (F2) Unknown 100 100 163117 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 154	72.1% Very good	Read 426 Write 398 Mixed 233 78% 352 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 68.7 4K Mixed 17.4 94% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 27.6 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 19.4 28% 50.5 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 103%
Transcend SSD370S 512GB-$209 3,350 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th 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 10011 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1003 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 45 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 73009 (A5) Unknown 100 100 124 (A6) Unknown 100 100 23 (A7) Unknown 100 100 71 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 123 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 37860 (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 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 693997 (F2) Unknown 100 100 801123 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1168144	72.1% Very good	Read 412 Write 377 Mixed 327 83% 372 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 71.3 4K Mixed 17 101% 38.6 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 19.4 29% 52.8 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 111%
Crucial M4 64GB-$92 7,336 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 11GB free Firmware: 0309 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th 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 19701 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1757 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 82 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 12240746776004 (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 49 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	48.7% Average	Read 416 Write 104 Mixed 140 48% 220 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 71.3 4K Mixed 5.01 84% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 84.5 DQ Mixed 6.9 20% 40.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 65%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 101GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9186 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2048 (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 29690 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2093 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979478557 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 1 1 54691 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 12 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2105	66.1% Good	Read 99.1 Write 131 Mixed 100 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 3.07 4K Mixed 0.46 127% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1600LL Series 2x4GB 610 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.1% Below average	MC Read 10.5 MC Write 11.3 MC Mixed 9.9 30% 10.6 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 10.6 SC Mixed 9.3 28% 9.83 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 33.1% Great: 64%

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Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 80%

Battleship

Workstation 37%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87X-HD3

CPU
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	31x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	15x
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	14x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	9x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	9x
GTX 760Nvidia $209Bench 26%, 161,132 samples	7x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	7x
870 QVO 2TBSamsung $145Bench 102%, 41,734 samples	5x
860 QVO 1TBSamsung $109Bench 89%, 201,200 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	6x
DDR3 1866 2x8GBUnknownBench 55%, 1,300 samples	6x
DDR3 1866 2x4GBUnknownBench 51%, 1,483 samples	5x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $346

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 $179	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