Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 8 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20110603
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 09 '18 at 16:06
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 5.8 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 466 62% 466 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 366E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.6% Very good	Lighting 92 Reflection 89.3 Parallax 79.7 75% 87 fps	MRender 78.9 Gravity 82 Splatting 69.5 62% 76.8 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: X411 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3319 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 887 (A5) Unknown 100 100 98828812926 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 216 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 67 287763726368 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1451715723602 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1706 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6544 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5290 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7406 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	63.8% Good	Read 483 Write 125 Mixed 167 56% 258 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 41.6 4K Mixed 11.7 85% 28.3 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 43 96% 204 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 101%
WD WD2002FYPS-01U1B0 2TB 7,087 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 1.5TB free Firmware: 04.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 238 229 10066 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1023 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 381 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 58592 (C2) HDA temperature 123 108 29 (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 200 200 0	53.4% Above average	Read 89 Write 96.7 Mixed 92.5 70% 92.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.36 113% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 63%

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 (89^th percentile)	54% Above average	MC Read 18.1 MC Write 19.2 MC Mixed 16.9 52% 18.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.9 SC Mixed 18.2 50% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 54% 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	365x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	237x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	102x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	94x
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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	27x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	385x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	289x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	168x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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