Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 76%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	63.3% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120822
Uptime	5.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 07 '17 at 04:39
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	76% Very good	Memory 92.8 1-Core 97.5 2-Core 185 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 345 8-Core 338 46% 342 Pts	64-Core 339 21% 339 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 116 Parallax 108 94% 113 fps	MRender 98.1 Gravity 105 Splatting 97.7 82% 100 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 60GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18355 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2435 (B1) Unknown 86 86 493 (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 71 48 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 252 (F1) Unknown 99 99 45174233469	63.3% Good	Read 494 Write 201 Mixed 314 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 51.4 4K Mixed 18.4 80% 29.7 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 63.7 DQ Mixed 56.5 69% 126 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 76%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$86 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 762GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 174 6075 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1981 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17243 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1912 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 1759 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 221 (C2) HDA temperature 118 104 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	57.3% Above average	Read 68.5 Write 131 Mixed 67.6 66% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.14 78% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 88%
TS-RDF5 SD Transcend 64GB 1,196 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 60GB free, PID 4000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	20% Very poor	Read 33.1 Write 22.5 Mixed 27.9 34% 27.8 MB/s	4K Read 5.43 4K Write 2.93 4K Mixed 2.2 194% 3.52 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 20% Great: 40%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown IMT451U6MFR8Y-DC0 4x4GB 59 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.3% Above average	MC Read 18.9 MC Write 21.3 MC Mixed 17.4 55% 19.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 15.9 43% 15.1 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55.3% Great: 93%

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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 39%

Jet ski

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H - $380

CPU
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	570x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	248x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	212x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	77x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	74x
HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 52,547 samples	73x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	48x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	41x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	38x

RAM
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	35x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 20,667 samples	29x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	26x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $845

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16