Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	99.1% 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	49.9% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Gigabyte B250-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 19:15
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$170 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	80% Very good	Memory 84.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 248 83% 151 Pts	4-Core 433 8-Core 455 59% 444 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6282) ≥ 4GB; evga sc CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	99.1% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 143 Parallax 130 104% 133 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 123 Splatting 102 90% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41320RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1599 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 278 (A5) Unknown 100 100 158995448973 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 36 (A8) Unknown 100 100 24 (A9) Unknown 100 100 428 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 45 193274511394 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3435993367328 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5104 (EA) Unknown 100 100 23891 (F1) Unknown 253 253 20324 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5941 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	49.9% Average	Read 484 Write 86.4 Mixed 206 56% 259 MB/s	4K Read 20 4K Write 29.5 4K Mixed 9.02 58% 19.5 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 77.8 DQ Mixed 23.1 62% 138 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 49.9% Great: 108%
Sandisk Ultra II 480GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 646GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 171 2450 (04) Start/Stop count 46 46 54761 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 926 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 46 46 54191 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 181 181 57247 (C2) HDA temperature 113 100 30 (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	92.3% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 150 Mixed 147 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.41 4K Mixed 0.33 112% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GBF2X04HEEE35-12-K 2x8GB 937 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.8% Very good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 23.6 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 26.4 SC Mixed 21 60% 20.9 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 79%

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

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Typical GA-B250-HD3-CF Builds (Compare 490 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 43%

Speed boat

Desktop 78%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3-CF

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $62Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	99x
Core i5-7400Intel $70Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	84x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	78x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	44x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	39x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $135Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	13x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	13x
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	11x

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Total price: $273

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16