Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (25th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 75 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 65%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	73.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

18 months ago, 18 months ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A (all builds)
Memory	21.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1824 x 1026 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150810
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '22 at 05:05
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4790K-$348 455,746 User benchmarks, average bench 79% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	65% Good	Memory 75.1 1-Core 108 2-Core 206 73% 130 Pts	4-Core 296 8-Core 515 49% 406 Pts	64-Core 554 34% 554 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660-Ti-$143 318,562 User benchmarks, average bench 76% Gigabyte(1458 3FBE) CLim: 2130 MHz, MLim: 3000 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 516.40 Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.2% Very good	Lighting 92.5 Reflection 94 Parallax 83.3 75% 89.9 fps	MRender 95.4 Gravity 86.7 Splatting 75.3 69% 85.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 81%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Microsoft Storage Space Device 999GB 7,881 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 167GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 305 403 423 435 436 428 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Read 450 Write 430 Mixed 396 SusWrite 405 95% 420 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 67.2 4K Mixed 43.2 140% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 348 263% 353 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 127%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 97 96 114 121 130 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	59.8% Above average	Read 100 Write 94.5 Mixed 66.4 SusWrite 108 68% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.3 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 1 210% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 109%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 344GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 132 138 139 137 135 138 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Read 160 Write 117 Mixed 103 SusWrite 137 95% 129 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1 211% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 1866 CL10 Series 0420 F3-1600C9-8GXM 1302 1866 CL10 Series 0420 F3-1600C9-8GXM 32GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	47.3% Average	MC Read 16.5 MC Write 17.6 MC Mixed 14.8 47% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 17.6 SC Mixed 15.6 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 90.2 44% 90.2 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47.3% Great: 70%

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

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 60%

Gunboat

Workstation 7%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-DS3H-A

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	250x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	229x
Core i7-4790KIntel $348Bench 79%, 455,746 samples	115x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	182x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	79x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	69x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	49x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	39x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	39x
HyperX DDR3 1600 C10 1x4GBKingstonBench 28%, 3,143 samples	27x
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	23x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $247

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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16