Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 83.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	134% 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	82.4% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3 (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 02:37
Run Duration	215 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Memory 98 1-Core 110 2-Core 220 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 376 8-Core 556 58% 466 Pts	64-Core 556 34% 556 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 204 Parallax 198 153% 197 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 186 Splatting 127 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 77GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^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 3954 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1144 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 63 52 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 57 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3014618368	67.6% Good	Read 263 Write 181 Mixed 185 46% 210 MB/s	4K Read 41.7 4K Write 60.3 4K Mixed 26.8 130% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 201 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 75.6 81% 137 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 118%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7389 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2045 (E8) Unknown 100 100 17713820330 (E9) Unknown 99 0 99	82.4% Excellent	Read 405 Write 207 Mixed 252 63% 288 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 29.8 142% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 89.2 110% 196 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 104%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 22GB free Firmware: 1.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7396 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2047 (E8) Unknown 100 100 2789060623 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	78.7% Very good	Read 399 Write 172 Mixed 191 56% 254 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 26.6 143% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 82 100% 178 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 104%
WD Green 500GB (2009)-$23 63,281 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 34GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 189 3483 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5625 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11505 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2805 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 45926 (C2) HDA temperature 114 96 29 (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	29.7% Poor	Read 48.1 Write 54.9 Mixed 54.6 40% 52.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.31 88% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 54%
WD Blue 160GB (2007)-$22 56,540 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 33GB free Firmware: 58.01D58 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 150 149 3491 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6620 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16626 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3704 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 548 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6742 (C2) HDA temperature 109 91 34 (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	35.5% Below average	Read 57.3 Write 66.1 Mixed 54.1 44% 59.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.26 80% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 35.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 24.3 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 22.2 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 45.9 87% 45.9 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 61%

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Gaming 63%

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Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 51%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD7-B3

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	58x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	9x
Core i7-2700KIntel $89Bench 73%, 20,692 samples	8x

GPU
RTX 2060Nvidia $323Bench 90%, 645,160 samples	10x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	9x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	9x

SSD
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	7x
512GB 512GBExramBench 95%, 71 samples	4x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	3x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	33x
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	17x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	15x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $680

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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 $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16