Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 81.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	113% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (18%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110520
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '19 at 03:36
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	18%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.4 GHz, turbo 5.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	81.1% Excellent	Memory 89.6 1-Core 119 2-Core 232 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 583 61% 488 Pts	64-Core 584 36% 584 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 370F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2551 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 436.48 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 153 Parallax 132 123% 145 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 145 Splatting 114 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 20GB free Firmware: 1.3 SusWrite @10s intervals: 98 96 85 89 94 94 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	45.7% Average	Read 144 Write 122 Mixed 117 SusWrite 92.8 27% 119 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 67.9 4K Mixed 25.5 104% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.6 DQ Write 88.1 DQ Mixed 32.9 32% 49.5 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 61%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: 82.00A82 SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 102 123 134 136 133 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	71% Very good	Read 125 Write 123 Mixed 61 SusWrite 122 79% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.9 172% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 88%

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 below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	27% Poor	MC Read 8.5 MC Write 8.3 MC Mixed 7.8 23% 8.2 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 9.4 SC Mixed 7.9 24% 8.53 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 27% Great: 97%

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

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Typical GA-Z68A-D3-B3 Builds (Compare 217 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 35%

Sail boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	69x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	51x
Core i7-2600Intel $194Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	11x
GTX 680Nvidia $360Bench 32%, 38,995 samples	11x

SSD
GOODRAM 240GBBench 79%, 8,481 samples	11x
CS900 1TB SSDPNYBench 78%, 7,281 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	66x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	45x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	18x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $446

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