Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 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 77.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	93.4% 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	120% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150917
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '21 at 08:18
Run Duration	156 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	77.1% Very good	Memory 82.8 1-Core 131 2-Core 247 85% 154 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 543 59% 466 Pts	64-Core 550 34% 550 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 87%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	3.59% Terrible	Lighting 4.1 Reflection 2.8 Parallax 7.6 3% 4.83 fps	MRender 6.6 Gravity 2.7 Splatting 5.5 4% 4.93 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.59% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2727 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 460.89 Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	93.4% Outstanding	Lighting 147 Reflection 156 Parallax 159 120% 154 fps	MRender 18 Gravity 152 Splatting 0.1 42% 56.6 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX500 1TB-$74 202,785 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: M3CR023 SusWrite @10s intervals: 435 445 440 416 434 461 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	120% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 457 Mixed 421 SusWrite 438 102% 455 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 56.7 183% 65 MB/s	DQ Read 382 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 302 243% 343 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 125%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 166GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 64 64 64 65 66 65 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	37.2% Below average	Read 64.5 Write 61.2 Mixed 55.7 SusWrite 64.7 46% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.8 149% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 875GB free Firmware: 0001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 112 116 118 118 117 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	60.4% Good	Read 94.4 Write 136 Mixed 72.1 SusWrite 116 77% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0 88% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CML8GX3M2A1600C9 1315 CT102464BD160B.M16 0215 CML8GX3M2A1600C9 16GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	33.6% Below average	MC Read 11.2 MC Write 11.4 MC Mixed 9.9 31% 10.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 11.5 31% 11 GB/s	Latency 75.6 53% 75.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 33.6% Great: 47%

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

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 60%

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Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85-HD3-A

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	44x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	39x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	29x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	28x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	25x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	21x

SSD
Green 240GB (2018)WD $34Bench 45%, 156,194 samples	13x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	8x
HyperX 3K 240GBKingston $70Bench 81%, 27,495 samples	6x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	17x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 2x8GBKingstonBench 52%, 19,522 samples	7x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBKingstonBench 58%, 8,730 samples	6x

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Value: 59% - Above average

Total price: $243

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16