Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 79.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90.4% 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	36.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce IO wait 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20130311
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 13 '16 at 22:31
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	Memory 94.3 1-Core 109 2-Core 205 80% 136 Pts	4-Core 348 8-Core 524 54% 436 Pts	64-Core 524 32% 524 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.19 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 120 Parallax 119 95% 118 fps	MRender 98.3 Gravity 105 Splatting 98 82% 100 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 480GB-$31 13,149 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 357GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1671 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 547 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (AA) Unknown 100 100 476 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 189 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 2 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 477	51.7% Above average	Read 376 Write 270 Mixed 266 67% 304 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 35.7 4K Mixed 8.46 64% 22.3 MB/s	DQ Read 25 DQ Write 56.1 DQ Mixed 8.04 15% 29.7 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 101%
OCZ VERTEX-PLUS 240GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.55 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21744 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3331 (E8) Unknown 100 100 396409 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	36.5% Below average	Read 200 Write 215 Mixed 182 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 28.6 4K Mixed 6.8 50% 17.6 MB/s	DQ Read 17.5 DQ Write 28.2 DQ Mixed 7.15 10% 17.6 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 79%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 829GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 50800116 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2766 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6204131 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4463 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 909 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 487653404 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 38654705692 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 22 50800116 (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 53854594932673 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1868466529 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2374242786	68.5% Good	Read 121 Write 117 Mixed 92.2 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.51 119% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	59% Above average	MC Read 21.8 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 17.8 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 20.3 54% 18.8 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 63%

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Gaming 39%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 30%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68MX-UD2H-B3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	28x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	26x
Core i7-2600Intel $211Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	13x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	10x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	6x

SSD
BX500 480GBCrucial $38Bench 63%, 83,298 samples	5x
Ultimate SU800 512GBAdata $71Bench 104%, 31,280 samples	4x
PLUS 240 GB 240GBSandiskBench 43%, 24,911 samples	4x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	31x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	20x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	7x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $401

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16