Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.6% 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	66.5% 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140812
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 19 '17 at 05:14
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4770K-$120 172,887 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 87.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 234 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 630 65% 523 Pts	64-Core 660 41% 660 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.6% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 107 Parallax 91.8 83% 100 fps	MRender 92 Gravity 95.5 Splatting 97 78% 94.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 115GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16742 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2267 (B1) Unknown 84 84 190 (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 68 47 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 7 (EB) Unknown 99 99 319 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67714149822	66.5% Good	Read 513 Write 185 Mixed 174 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 91.5 4K Mixed 12.7 106% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.2 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 11.9 35% 70.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 966GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 56234528 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4421 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 60216880497 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17571 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2162 (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 74 52 4732878874 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 235 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 23 23 155016 (C2) HDA temperature 26 48 -140737488355302 (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 80307298511061 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47537530080 (F2) Unknown 100 253 62198153892	112% Outstanding	Read 216 Write 176 Mixed 155 136% 182 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.35 97% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 114%
Seagate Expansion 2TB 49,966 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 845GB free Firmware: 9300 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	58.3% Above average	Read 100 Write 103 Mixed 107 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.37 94% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SRT8G86U1-P9H 2x8GB 213 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	28.7% Poor	MC Read 9.8 MC Write 10 MC Mixed 8.1 27% 9.3 GB/s	SC Read 6.6 SC Write 7.9 SC Mixed 7.3 21% 7.27 GB/s	Latency 69.8 57% 69.8 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 28.7% Great: 60%

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Desktop 66%

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Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z87-HD3

CPU
Core i5-4670KIntel $62Bench 68%, 128,482 samples	464x
Core i7-4770KIntel $120Bench 74%, 172,887 samples	356x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	291x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	157x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	102x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	67x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	54x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	48x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	51x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBKingstonBench 50%, 19,207 samples	42x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	32x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $515	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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