Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	123% 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	51% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110707
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 15 '18 at 21:45
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	Memory 91.5 1-Core 95.4 2-Core 172 72% 120 Pts	4-Core 304 8-Core 444 47% 374 Pts	64-Core 477 30% 477 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 376B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 170 Reflection 193 Parallax 173 138% 178 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 173 Splatting 120 112% 138 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 82GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (6^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 89 89 6512295 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 93724776362540 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1921 (AB) Unknown 0 0 2 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 14 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 2 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 6512295 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 6512295 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 6512295 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 40028 (EA) Unknown 0 0 30822 (F1) Unknown 0 0 30822 (F2) Unknown 0 0 23268	53.2% Above average	Read 262 Write 127 Mixed 186 42% 192 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 57.3 4K Mixed 21.2 95% 34.4 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 46.4 62% 113 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 82%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2549 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 817 (B1) Unknown 98 98 114 (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 65 53 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 45608005390	51% Above average	Read 266 Write 209 Mixed 241 53% 239 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 18.2 75% 26.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.7 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 18.4 40% 78 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 51% Great: 124%

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 above expectations (74^th percentile)	48% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 17.1 MC Mixed 15.2 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 10.9 SC Write 17.2 SC Mixed 12.5 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 64.9 62% 64.9 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 48% 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 5%

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Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 5%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68M-D2H

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	26x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	21x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	14x

GPU
HD 2000 (Desktop 1.1 GHz)IntelBench 1%, 150,891 samples	8x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	8x
GTX 750-TiNvidia $92Bench 17%, 309,423 samples	7x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
128GB 128GBNetacBench 58%, 1,666 samples	5x
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	4x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	28x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	28x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	17x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $325

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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