Gigabyte GA-H270-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 86%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.8% 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	51.4% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H270-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161130
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '17 at 13:43
Run Duration	125 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86% Excellent	Memory 82.8 1-Core 132 2-Core 260 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 515 8-Core 513 69% 514 Pts	64-Core 489 30% 489 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 116 Parallax 105 90% 111 fps	MRender 95.1 Gravity 102 Splatting 89.2 78% 95.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 27 (64) Unknown 100 100 63200 (65) Unknown 100 100 9696 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 37 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 690 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 100 111670132761 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 118 (EA) Unknown 100 100 56 (F1) Unknown 100 100 100 (F2) Unknown 100 100 105 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	51.4% Above average	Read 467 Write 164 Mixed 105 53% 245 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 31.6 4K Mixed 6.01 54% 19.1 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 63 DQ Mixed 23.1 55% 120 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 82%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 909GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 71 127592474 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 27 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 107518 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 25 (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 69 69 521469983 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 27 (C2) HDA temperature 31 14 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 5 127592474 (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 15822659518480 (F1) Unknown 100 253 78648593 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48943881	95.7% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 163 Mixed 143 119% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.32 103% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB-$42 66,222 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.7% Average	MC Read 14.6 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12.5 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 12 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 13.4 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 75.6 53% 75.6 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 88%

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Gaming 48%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H270-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	349x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	203x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	200x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	197x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	152x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	132x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	33x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	31x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	60x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	25x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $383

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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