Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 32% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	54.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120221
Uptime	4.1 Days
Run Date	May 23 '17 at 03:36
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500 82,538 User benchmarks, average bench 63% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 96.8 2-Core 186 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 353 8-Core 357 47% 355 Pts	64-Core 358 22% 358 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	Lighting 68.6 Reflection 70.4 Parallax 62.7 56% 67.2 fps	MRender 75 Gravity 65.5 Splatting 56.6 53% 65.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 54%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 3 (03) Spinup time 173 165 2350 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 558 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15381 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 537 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 138 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 541 (C2) HDA temperature 107 96 36 (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	72.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 118 Mixed 128 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.27 106% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	53.5% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 19.3 MC Mixed 16.8 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 17.7 SC Mixed 16.6 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 62 64% 62 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 65%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 5%

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Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 5%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	26x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	21x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	14x

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	8x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	8x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	7x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
128GB 128GBNetacBench 58%, 1,666 samples	5x
BX500 240GBCrucial $28Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	4x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	28x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	28x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	17x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	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) $31	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