Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	110% 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	72.4% 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit renk
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120321
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '17 at 21:35
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.6 GHz, turbo 6.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 125 2-Core 242 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 637 70% 551 Pts	64-Core 639 40% 639 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2700 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 158 Parallax 136 121% 147 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 143 Splatting 110 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 140GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2570 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 626 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 42 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9286746001	72.4% Very good	Read 518 Write 395 Mixed 413 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 57.7 4K Mixed 19.8 84% 32 MB/s	DQ Read 36 DQ Write 61.9 DQ Mixed 125 73% 74.2 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 134%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 106GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (0^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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3104 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 764 (B1) Unknown 96 96 19 (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 73 54 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 84 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9090183996	34.5% Below average	Read 255 Write 126 Mixed 127 37% 170 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 20 4K Mixed 11.7 51% 16.1 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 31.2 DQ Mixed 11.4 14% 23.9 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 46GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8383 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4052 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 70 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 140 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8061229807	85.5% Excellent	Read 520 Write 369 Mixed 418 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 54.1 4K Mixed 19.7 93% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 383 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 19.4 98% 225 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 124%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 684GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 129 127 6525 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5015 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1560 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 296 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 64620 (C2) HDA temperature 121 93 26 (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	56.4% Above average	Read 98.1 Write 98.5 Mixed 89.8 72% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.19 66% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	62.2% Good	MC Read 21.7 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 19.2 60% 20.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 19.2 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 97%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	69x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	51x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	11x
GTX 680Nvidia $360Bench 32%, 38,995 samples	11x

SSD
GOODRAM 240GBBench 79%, 8,481 samples	11x
CS900 1TB SSDPNYBench 78%, 7,281 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	66x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	45x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	18x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $446

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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) $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