Biostar IH81MC-Q3

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.6% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	22.6% is an extremely low SSD score, this system will benefit from a faster SSD.
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

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Biostar IH81MC-Q3 (all builds)
Memory	4.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20190314
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '22 at 16:35
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4570-$99 129,272 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	Memory 93 1-Core 96.5 2-Core 158 71% 116 Pts	4-Core 350 8-Core 354 47% 352 Pts	64-Core 351 22% 351 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 72%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 550-$79 79,894 User benchmarks, average bench 14% ASRock(1849 5037) 2GB CLim: 1183 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 22.4.1 Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	11.6% Very poor	Lighting 14.9 Reflection 27.1 Parallax 22.7 12% 21.6 fps	MRender 25.7 Gravity 18.4 Splatting 0.2 10% 14.8 fps
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 11.6% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Q-360 360GB 1,222 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60 SusWrite @10s intervals: 52 20 33 8.3 25 76 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	22.6% Poor	Read 1 Write 3.5 Mixed 0.7 SusWrite 35.6 2% 10.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 7 4K Mixed 38.6 54% 15.3 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 22.6% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 243GB free Firmware: KC48 SusWrite @10s intervals: 118 119 118 117 119 119 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	70.7% Very good	Read 128 Write 114 Mixed 64 SusWrite 118 78% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.8 132% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GB-$35 38,490 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	54.9% Above average	MC Read 20.1 MC Write 19.4 MC Mixed 17.4 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 16.2 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 67%

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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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Typical IH81MC-Q3 Builds (Compare 13 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 8%

Tree trunk

Desktop 60%

Destroyer

Workstation 7%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Biostar IH81MC-Q3

CPU
Core i5-4570Intel $99Bench 62%, 129,272 samples	7x
Core i7-4790SIntel $60Bench 72%, 13,224 samples	4x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	2x

GPU
GeForce GT 710NvidiaBench 3%, 187,161 samples	3x
RX 550AMD $79Bench 14%, 79,894 samples	3x
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	3x

SSD
SU650 120GBAdata $14Bench 63%, 42,288 samples	4x
MZ7LN256HAJQ-000L2 256GBSamsungBench 82%, 2,092 samples	2x
Q-360 360GBBench 64%, 1,222 samples	2x

RAM
KRE-D3U1600M/8G 2x8GBUnknownBench 53%, 1,548 samples	3x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x4GBHyperX $35Bench 51%, 38,490 samples	2x
16GBKingstonBench 58%, 178 samples	1x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $113

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $95	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16