Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


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 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 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	85.4% 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	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	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 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3 (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20120221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 12 '18 at 13:02
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	14%

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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 i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 126 2-Core 252 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 501 8-Core 484 66% 493 Pts	64-Core 499 31% 499 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 36FC) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 399.24 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 116 Parallax 102 88% 109 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 96.6 Splatting 100 81% 98.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston A400 480GB-$38 237,487 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 295GB free Firmware: SBFK71B1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 347 104 77 73 77 72 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	32.7% Below average	Read 302 Write 97.8 Mixed 79.3 SusWrite 125 33% 151 MB/s	4K Read 12.7 4K Write 16.5 4K Mixed 9.4 40% 12.9 MB/s	DQ Read 16.7 DQ Write 26.1 DQ Mixed 29 20% 23.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 32.7% Great: 102%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 517GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 SusWrite @10s intervals: 46 31 31 41 43 54 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	20.3% Poor	Read 28.3 Write 87.5 Mixed 32.8 SusWrite 40.8 35% 47.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 5 4K Mixed 1.9 350% 2.67 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 20.3% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 366GB free Firmware: CC34 SusWrite @10s intervals: 103 104 103 104 104 104 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	55% Above average	Read 87.8 Write 85.7 Mixed 49.5 SusWrite 104 60% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.9 157% 1 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 533GB free Firmware: CC34 SusWrite @10s intervals: 104 104 104 105 105 104 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	57.6% Above average	Read 96.5 Write 95.8 Mixed 56.7 SusWrite 104 65% 88.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.9 145% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 68%

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 (55^th percentile)	62.7% Good	MC Read 21.3 MC Write 22.5 MC Mixed 20 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.6 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 53.2 75% 53.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 62.7% 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 37%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD4-B3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	121x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	49x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	44x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	15x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	12x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	10x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	92x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	42x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	31x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $613

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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