Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	107% 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	75.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120321
Uptime	5.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '20 at 22:52
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 126 2-Core 253 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 640 72% 566 Pts	64-Core 633 39% 633 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 3002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 451.48 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 151 Parallax 136 111% 141 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 144 Splatting 116 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 808GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 233 324 370 333 236 239 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	Read 392 Write 367 Mixed 313 SusWrite 289 76% 340 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 54.8 4K Mixed 38.3 123% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 39.9 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 53.7 47% 67.1 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 126%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 177GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 140 145 148 149 151 151 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	81% Excellent	Read 136 Write 136 Mixed 57.3 SusWrite 147 87% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.6 119% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	66% Good	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 23 MC Mixed 20.4 63% 22.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 22.9 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 51.6 78% 51.6 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 74%

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Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	100x
Core i7-2600Intel $191Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	66x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	62x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	26x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	26x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	24x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	14x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	127x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	111x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	64x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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