Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 83.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	124% 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 Drive	47.9% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110616
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 06:46
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 110 2-Core 221 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 432 8-Core 435 58% 434 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 205 Parallax 200 136% 191 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 179 Splatting 130 119% 147 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 189 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (A5) Unknown 100 100 120273240250 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 12 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 48 223338299435 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 266292101183 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 531 (EA) Unknown 100 100 866 (F1) Unknown 253 253 599 (F2) Unknown 253 253 349 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	47.9% Average	Read 444 Write 27.9 Mixed 234 51% 235 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 87.6 4K Mixed 5.21 92% 39.5 MB/s	DQ Read 28.3 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 7.51 25% 50.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 78%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$72 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 276GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 20074 (03) Spinup time 112 105 7375 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1369 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 33144 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1300 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 278 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 897954 (C2) HDA temperature 120 100 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 184 0	43.7% Average	Read 78 Write 74.1 Mixed 28.9 44% 60.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	51.7% Above average	MC Read 17.2 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16 49% 17.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 18.9 SC Mixed 17.4 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 61%

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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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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	367x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	240x
Core i7-2600Intel $169Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	168x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	103x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	96x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	88x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	41x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	36x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	28x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	387x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	291x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	171x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $125	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $44	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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