Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming
Gaming 89%
Aircraft carrier
Desktop
Desktop 84%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 76%
Battleship
PC StatusOverall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
ProcessorWith 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics107% 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 DriveThe 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.
Memory16GB 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 VersionAlthough Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.
SystemGigabyte B250M-Gaming 3
MotherboardGigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF  (all builds)
Memory10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit cores
OSWindows 10
BIOS Date20170209
Uptime0.2 Days
Run DateDec 14 '21 at 20:03
Run Duration157 Seconds
Run User COL-User
Background CPU10%
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 PC Performing above expectations (76th percentile)

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

Processor BenchNormalHeavyServer
Intel Core i7-7700-$167
U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads
Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg)
Performing way above expectations (97th percentile)
84.5% Excellent
Memory 90.9
1-Core 118
2-Core 226
83% 145 Pts
4-Core 420
8-Core 670
67% 545 Pts
64-Core 676
42% 676 Pts
Poor: 63%
This bench: 84.5%
Great: 84%
Graphics Card Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195
CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 497.09
Performing above expectations (85th percentile)
107% Outstanding
Lighting 134
Reflection 150
Parallax 151
109% 145 fps
MRender 127
Gravity 142
Splatting 126
107% 132 fps
Poor: 93%
This bench: 107%
Great: 110%
Drive BenchSequentialRandom 4kDeep queue 4k
Toshiba P300 1TB-$40
732GB free (System drive)
Firmware: MS2OA8J0
SusWrite @10s intervals: 128 132 125 131 126 136 MB/s
Performing as expected (50th percentile)
86.2% Excellent
Read 171
Write 164
Mixed 28.3
SusWrite 130
89% 123 MB/s
4K Read 1
4K Write 1.7
4K Mixed 0.5
129% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52%
This bench: 86.2%
Great: 107%
Memory Kit BenchMulti coreSingle coreLatency
Unknown BLS8G4D240FSEK.8FBD 859B BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD2 16GB
2400, 2400 MHz
8192, 8192 MB
Performing above expectations (72nd percentile)
76.2% Very good
MC Read 28.5
MC Write 29.4
MC Mixed 22.9
77% 26.9 GB/s
SC Read 17.7
SC Write 29.2
SC Mixed 22.4
66% 23.1 GB/s
Latency 65.9
61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 42%
This bench: 76.2%
Great: 77%

 System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Typical GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF Builds (Compare 879 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings
Gaming
Gaming 47%
Yacht
Desktop
Desktop 82%
Aircraft carrier
Workstation
Workstation 40%
Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER Value: 99% - Outstanding Total price: $284
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