Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.1% 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	106% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20121024
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 01 '17 at 15:26
Run Duration	346 Seconds
Run User	AUT-User
Background CPU	20%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$50 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 96.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 227 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 426 58% 430 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 17C8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.1% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 114 Parallax 103 87% 108 fps	MRender 90.5 Gravity 98.1 Splatting 80 72% 89.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial_ Crucial_CT1050MX 1TB 28 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 76GB free Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (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 53 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 7 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 57 184684642333 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 6280466787 (F7) Unknown 100 100 196374672 (F8) Unknown 100 100 94085299 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4372 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	70.1% Very good	Read 261 Write 254 Mixed 258 58% 257 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 34.4 115% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 77.1 88% 150 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 112%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8922 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1183 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 56 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 27 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23187006111	106% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 399 Mixed 412 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 61.2 4K Mixed 44.8 149% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 385 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 116 147% 263 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 134%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 38GB free Firmware: GM4O Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 139 (03) Spinup time 115 115 25791496526 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 13785 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 131 29 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 32299 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3807 (C0) Power-off retract count 88 88 14557 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 14557 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 253403136028 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50% Above average	Read 87.2 Write 87 Mixed 72.2 62% 82.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.44 101% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 6GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120310097 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9239 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 4304590805 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9539 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2565 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 4295360864 (BD) vendor-specific 90 90 10 (BE) vendor-specific 71 54 538574877 (C2) HDA temperature 29 46 68719476765 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 20 120310097 (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 -32044750978186 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3475757348 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2042598437	47.8% Average	Read 85.1 Write 81.4 Mixed 79 62% 81.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.56 102% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 68%
HDD 250GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 91GB free, PID 2551 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	16.1% Very poor	Read 31.5 Write 28.9 Mixed 12.3 29% 24.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.2 65% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 16.1% Great: 134%
TOSHIBA MQ01ABD100 1TB 183 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 17GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	24.3% Poor	Read 57.8 Write 56.7 Mixed 32.1 60% 48.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.16 45% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 24.3% Great: 42%
WDC WD20 EZRX-00DC0B0 2TB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 16GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	44.6% Average	Read 111 Write 96.3 Mixed 55.4 106% 87.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.2 91% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 60%
HDD 500GB 61 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 3GB free, PID 2551 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	15.7% Very poor	Read 32.4 Write 28.2 Mixed 29.8 38% 30.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.41 68% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 15.7% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Sniper DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,634 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2000 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 24.3 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 21.4 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 52.2 77% 52.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 72%

Take a copy of your results How to check your in-game FPS

System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical GA-Z77X-D3H Builds (Compare 1,660 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H - $333

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $50Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	531x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	439x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	290x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	117x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	104x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	66x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	44x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	43x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	38x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $579

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $48