Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	39.8% 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 (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit renk
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120321
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '17 at 14:23
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.5 GHz, turbo 6.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 119 2-Core 234 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 606 62% 503 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$265 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2700 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 152 Reflection 159 Parallax 137 124% 149 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 145 Splatting 118 105% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 104GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1339 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 458 (B1) Unknown 98 98 10 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 60 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5529308266	39.8% Below average	Read 252 Write 135 Mixed 139 39% 175 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 21.8 4K Mixed 18.1 66% 20.2 MB/s	DQ Read 24 DQ Write 27.8 DQ Mixed 9.65 12% 20.5 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 55GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 805 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 321 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 53 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 19 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6756425751	90.7% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 396 Mixed 411 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 63.1 4K Mixed 43.7 138% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 36.7 DQ Write 68.9 DQ Mixed 20.9 25% 42.2 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 38GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6617 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3748 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 57 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 117 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7280209102	101% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 403 Mixed 414 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 58.5 4K Mixed 41.4 137% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 20.1 91% 207 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$64 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 545GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 131 127 6441 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3342 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9353 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1263 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 274 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 182 182 55694 (C2) HDA temperature 123 93 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.4% Above average	Read 94.8 Write 94.6 Mixed 89.7 70% 93.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.12 68% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 57%

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 (51^st percentile)	59.4% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 18.8 57% 20 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 20.5 SC Mixed 18.5 53% 18.6 GB/s	Latency 54.8 73% 54.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 97%

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

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Desktop 75%

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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 $191Bench 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 $269	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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16