Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	69.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140319
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '16 at 16:04
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 5.6 GHz, turbo 6.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 89.2 1-Core 107 2-Core 214 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 673 67% 546 Pts	64-Core 809 50% 809 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Nvidia(10DE 1116) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6472 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.6% Good	Lighting 90 Reflection 89.2 Parallax 78.2 73% 85.8 fps	MRender 82.4 Gravity 79.3 Splatting 69.5 62% 77.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 377GB free (System drive) Firmware: DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9933 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1091 (B1) Unknown 91 91 98 (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 74 53 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 192 (EB) Unknown 99 99 494 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67167618323
Poor: 53% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 579GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160785152 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3622 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 46 42 820345861429 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17858 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1497 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 73 47 4766433307 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 992 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 101059 (C2) HDA temperature 27 53 -140737488355301 (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 114602612369703 (F1) Unknown 100 253 33186542059 (F2) Unknown 100 253 46019287782	77.4% Very good	Read 145 Write 125 Mixed 106 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.22 59% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 113%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 132GB free Firmware: A20N Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 132 132 103 (03) Spinup time 128 128 51579650563 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4285 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 10 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 112 112 39 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 39687 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1946 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5318 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5318 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 261993529371 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 10 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 2 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50.5% Above average	Read 96.7 Write 79.2 Mixed 69.9 61% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 0.98 4K Mixed 0.22 72% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 69%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 130GB free Firmware: A580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 94 (03) Spinup time 153 153 34381431169 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3692 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 146 146 29 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 27661 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1766 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3766 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 3766 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 227633791001 (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 200 200 1	60.4% Good	Read 94 Write 117 Mixed 86.1 74% 98.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.32 75% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 73%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 71GB free Firmware: ABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 65537 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 73 (03) Spinup time 149 149 34383987088 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3594 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 12553 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1287 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3722 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 3722 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 210453921820 (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 200 200 17	78.2% Very good	Read 135 Write 138 Mixed 101 93% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.19 79% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 78.2% Great: 107%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$60 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 36GB free Firmware: CC51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 234360032 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2264 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 58 111781598930 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11738 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1144 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 17 17 83 (BE) vendor-specific 77 46 13288996887 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 506 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35702 (C2) HDA temperature 23 54 -140737488355305 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 18395344937387 (F1) Unknown 100 253 109332440500 (F2) Unknown 100 253 105322346127	58.4% Above average	Read 103 Write 101 Mixed 80.4 71% 94.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.15 62% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CL11-11-11 D3 2x8GB 224 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	54.1% Above average	MC Read 21.2 MC Write 18.4 MC Mixed 17.8 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.3 SC Write 14.6 SC Mixed 11.7 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 68.2 59% 68.2 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 54%

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Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 - $380

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	435x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	202x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	65x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	53x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	47x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
MX500 500GBCrucial $53Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	23x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	22x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	35x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	28x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	15x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $576

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
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 $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16