Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming5-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


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 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	73.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.6% 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.

Run History

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

System	Gigabyte B250M-Gaming5
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming5-CF (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170407
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 22 '17 at 18:27
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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 i5-7600-$89 39,689 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 90.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 251 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 485 65% 484 Pts	64-Core 491 30% 491 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 82%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2986) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1604 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Lighting 94.2 Reflection 94.7 Parallax 84.8 77% 91.3 fps	MRender 90.7 Gravity 83.8 Splatting 75.2 67% 83.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0309 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 360 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 353 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 7 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (B5) Unknown 100 100 957784260731 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 84841 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 81 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 6247 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	74.6% Very good	Read 505 Write 194 Mixed 279 71% 326 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 12.2 114% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 298 DQ Write 166 DQ Mixed 13.7 68% 159 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 277GB free Firmware: CC3E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 229198906 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2084 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 95442749 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3158 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 970 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 54 46 774635566 (C2) HDA temperature 46 54 68719476782 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 28 229198906 (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 -54348516157993 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2609202538 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1333000080	55.1% Above average	Read 97.1 Write 94.9 Mixed 87.4 70% 93.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.55 118% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 68%
Hitachi HUA722020ALA331 500GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 128GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 166 3683 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3663 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25294 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2708 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 160 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3502 (C2) HDA temperature 95 95 52 (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	59.6% Above average	Read 115 Write 92.3 Mixed 100 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.52 143% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 59.6% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	73.8% Very good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 23.1 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 27.8 SC Mixed 23.4 62% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 88%

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Gaming 48%

Yacht

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 41%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming5-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	34x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	27x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	15x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	12x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	10x

SSD
SU650 240GBAdata $70Bench 70%, 47,016 samples	6x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	6x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	6x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	7x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	5x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $353

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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