Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92.5% 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	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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

System	Gigabyte B250M-DS3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	6.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180110
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 08 '18 at 20:52
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$70 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 93.9 1-Core 113 2-Core 220 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 428 57% 428 Pts	64-Core 431 27% 431 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 1C03) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Lighting 73.5 Reflection 80 Parallax 73.8 60% 75.7 fps	MRender 70.7 Gravity 74.3 Splatting 75.1 60% 73.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 182GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1196 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 305 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 61 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7356634893	92.5% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 387 Mixed 407 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 42.3 4K Write 78.4 4K Mixed 25.3 138% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 24.6 60% 126 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 423GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 1448 (03) Spinup time 100 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1846 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 223194324 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20979 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1729 (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 72 57 4782424092 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 -140737488355300 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 14 1448 (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 74607876919831 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3302977852 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3047137841	70.4% Very good	Read 121 Write 125 Mixed 118 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.52 107% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x4GB 2,698 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	80.6% Excellent	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 23.8 81% 28.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.8 SC Mixed 24.3 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 90%

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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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Typical GA-B250M-DS3H-CF Builds (Compare 4,685 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 25%

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Desktop 74%

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Workstation 21%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-DS3H - $110

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $70Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	890x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	861x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	568x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	707x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	537x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	331x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	169x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	119x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	113x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	90x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	84x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	69x

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Value: 102% - Outstanding

Total price: $309

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	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