Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 4.0

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	81.9% 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	49.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 4.0 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140417
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Sep 02 '17 at 14:01
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	32%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3340-$278 8,792 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3340 CPU @ 3.10GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	71.7% Very good	Memory 88.9 1-Core 82.4 2-Core 168 67% 113 Pts	4-Core 316 8-Core 321 43% 319 Pts	64-Core 313 19% 313 Pts
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 74%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.9% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 111 Parallax 97.9 84% 104 fps	MRender 95.3 Gravity 94.5 Splatting 97.5 79% 95.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 176GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (2^nd 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 98 98 6173 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 180 (B1) Unknown 93 93 35 (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 56 45 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 110 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12313185756	49.6% Average	Read 253 Write 139 Mixed 144 39% 179 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 27.1 4K Mixed 20.7 83% 25.2 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 81 DQ Mixed 47.1 58% 104 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$84 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 178 5808 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3871 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 13954 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 300 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 64730 (C2) HDA temperature 116 101 34 (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	45.6% Average	Read 81 Write 77.7 Mixed 82.4 61% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.27 82% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 291GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138093527 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2583 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2977697 (09) Power-on hours count 59 58 36765 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1960 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 10 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 51 655425575 (C2) HDA temperature 39 49 34359738407 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 17 138093527 (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 -134187663189672 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4035449770 (F2) Unknown 100 253 937953964	48.5% Average	Read 73.3 Write 95.7 Mixed 68.8 59% 79.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.33 85% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 48.5% Great: 88%
WD Blue 320GB (2010)-$40 13,720 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 208GB free Firmware: 17.01H17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 186 68823 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3816 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2507 (05) Reallocated sector count 182 182 349 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18917 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1538 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 476 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2030 (C2) HDA temperature 102 86 41 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 284 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 182 7 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 4 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 199 197 210	55.6% Above average	Read 93.5 Write 101 Mixed 96.9 73% 97 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.29 61% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 C9 2x8GB 6,948 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	56.3% Above average	MC Read 20.6 MC Write 21.2 MC Mixed 17.8 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 14.6 SC Mixed 15.6 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 71%

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Desktop 58%

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Workstation 2%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H61M-DS2 4.0

CPU
Core i5-3470Intel $59Bench 63%, 223,595 samples	68x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	59x
Pentium G2030Intel $24Bench 49%, 18,277 samples	53x

GPU
HD 2500 (Desktop 1.05 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 146,665 samples	102x
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	38x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	31x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	27x
SU650 120GBAdata $14Bench 63%, 42,288 samples	16x
120GB 120GBSSDBench 59%, 4,995 samples	12x

RAM
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	17x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	16x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	11x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $87

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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