Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (90th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 10 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D 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-Z77-DS3H (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20131113
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 00:07
Run Duration	207 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-3570K-$136 185,516 User benchmarks, average bench 68% Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.3 GHz, turbo 5.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 120 2-Core 239 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 472 64% 475 Pts	64-Core 476 30% 476 Pts
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 114 Parallax 94.3 90% 106 fps	MRender 92.9 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 100 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Crucial MX500 1TB-$66 202,785 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 677GB free (System drive) Firmware: M3CR010 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 42 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 0 0 44 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 49 219043332130 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3110136978 (F7) Unknown 100 100 49503239 (F8) Unknown 100 100 17055522
Poor: 75% Great: 125%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8616 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7609 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22616 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4763 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 164 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7444 (C2) HDA temperature 116 91 36 (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	73.3% Very good	Read 147 Write 108 Mixed 124 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.33 125% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 85%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 252 8850 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2920 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 36793 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 924 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2745 (C2) HDA temperature 111 91 41 (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	87.1% Excellent	Read 174 Write 129 Mixed 135 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 0.47 145% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 85%
Microsoft Virtual Disk 239GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 138GB free Firmware: 1.0 Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	Read 164 Write 120 Mixed 134 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.42 124% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 84%
SV FAST 2TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 1TB free, PID 0233 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	50.4% Above average	Read 119 Write 116 Mixed 111 148% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.53 4K Mixed 0.34 100% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905458-020.A00LF 4x4GB 107 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1333 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	53% Above average	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.1 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 19.2 SC Mixed 17.6 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 63 63% 63 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 53%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 76%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H - $280

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	507x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	371x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	279x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	140x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	120x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	104x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	63x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	48x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	44x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	56x
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	56x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBCorsairBench 48%, 73,650 samples	41x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $560

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $256	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 $177	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $48	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16