Gigabyte GA-H270-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	227% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H270-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 26 '18 at 01:56
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

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PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.1% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 254 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 702 73% 588 Pts	64-Core 708 44% 708 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 147 Parallax 137 110% 140 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 132 Splatting 106 94% 116 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 465GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 98 98 8217 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1356 (B1) Unknown 98 98 26 (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 67 57 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33059233215	107% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 401 Mixed 414 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 88 4K Mixed 48.2 170% 58.9 MB/s	DQ Read 238 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 108 116% 192 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 134%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 348GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	227% Outstanding	Read 1,886 Write 1,339 Mixed 1,330 337% 1,519 MB/s	4K Read 49.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 41.8 187% 67 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 23.2 92% 207 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 227% Great: 254%
Intel MEMPEK1W016GA 14GB 866 User benchmarks, average bench 207% 13GB free Firmware: K3110300 Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	181% Outstanding	Read 820 Write 143 Mixed 247 87% 403 MB/s	4K Read 174 4K Write 87 4K Mixed 91.4 427% 118 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 220 175% 251 MB/s
Poor: 161% ↑ This bench: 181% Great: 245%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 929GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 145 11100 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1733 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8176 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1331 (10) Unknown 3 197 64544894654 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1671 (C2) HDA temperature 110 98 42 (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	71.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 114 Mixed 114 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 0.19 98% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$118 9,846 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.6 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 25.1 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 87%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 41%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H270-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	349x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	202x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	199x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	197x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	152x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	131x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	33x
A400 120GBKingston $29Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	31x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	60x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	25x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $383

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 $15	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