Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.7% 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	80.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

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System	Gigabyte Gaming B8
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8-CF (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170209
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 14:30
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 87.9 1-Core 138 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 396 8-Core 645 64% 520 Pts	64-Core 690 43% 690 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	94.7% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 130 Parallax 112 100% 122 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 120 Splatting 93.3 85% 105 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 233 100 233 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 57 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21486698644 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 14 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 52 62 266289545264 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 300651642950 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 275 (EA) Unknown 100 100 689 (F1) Unknown 253 253 524 (F2) Unknown 253 253 531 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.9% Excellent	Read 448 Write 333 Mixed 296 80% 359 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 69.2 4K Mixed 18.9 109% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 13.1 72% 167 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 93%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 274GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 89 200 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8467 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 9116385031 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12453 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2593 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 728 (BC) Unknown 100 53 343602626645 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 49 13574602793 (C2) HDA temperature 41 51 -140737488355287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 33 200 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 14 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 114911850016968 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3150942500 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4239106564	58.5% Above average	Read 99 Write 105 Mixed 95.1 75% 99.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.78 130% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 88%
Dell Portable 1TB 563 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 200GB free Firmware: 0302 Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	24.1% Poor	Read 41.6 Write 42 Mixed 38.9 31% 40.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.34 92% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 24.1% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	62.9% Good	MC Read 23.9 MC Write 24.1 MC Mixed 19.3 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 17.9 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 95%

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

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Gaming 29%

Raft

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 25%

Raft

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	106x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	91x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	50x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	58x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	44x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	41x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	16x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 1x8GBCorsair $25Bench 42%, 47,473 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	10x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $254

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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