Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.78% 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	58% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte B250-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170706
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 18:58
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-7100-$41 79,299 User benchmarks, average bench 57% U3E1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	75.3% Very good	Memory 91.4 1-Core 124 2-Core 239 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 346 46% 345 Pts	64-Core 348 22% 348 Pts
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 69%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4749 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	6.78% Terrible	Lighting 6.97 Reflection 10.5 Parallax 6.34 6% 7.94 fps	MRender 9.86 Gravity 6.23 Splatting 14.9 9% 10.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.78% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26475 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 10304 (B1) Unknown 81 81 220 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 67 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 1 1 4294966670 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24028308045	58% Above average	Read 490 Write 131 Mixed 161 56% 260 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 98.6 4K Mixed 7.76 97% 43.2 MB/s	DQ Read 22.1 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 7.57 25% 51.1 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 268GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 236487227 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 70 70 31630 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35757372 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30615 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 87 87 13515 (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 75 67 420806681 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 51539607577 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 14 236487227 (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 87716117135629 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2964190418 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2995697203	54.5% Above average	Read 93.8 Write 96 Mixed 88.5 70% 92.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.47 116% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 68%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 238GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 239 163 3016 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17854 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 35725 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 88 88 12991 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 310485 (C2) HDA temperature 124 114 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 199 153	58.6% Above average	Read 99.3 Write 105 Mixed 87.7 73% 97.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x4GB 12,708 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	70% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 20.6 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 26.5 SC Mixed 22.1 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 80%

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Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	96x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	84x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	78x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	44x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	12x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	11x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $300

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $176	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