Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 43% Speed boat	Desktop 61% Destroyer	Workstation 35% Sail boat


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 an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 53%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	78.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	37.6% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Very high background CPU (89%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120320
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 11 '17 at 23:40
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	89%

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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 i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	53% Above average	Memory 53.7 1-Core 79.5 2-Core 150 53% 94.3 Pts	4-Core 296 8-Core 328 41% 312 Pts	64-Core 306 19% 306 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 53% 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 8597) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.4% Very good	Lighting 97 Reflection 105 Parallax 87.6 79% 96.7 fps	MRender 91.8 Gravity 91.8 Splatting 97.6 77% 93.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO mSATA 1TB 1,324 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 924GB free Firmware: EMT41B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^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 99 831 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 8 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 64 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1480025176	48.7% Average	Read 224 Write 178 Mixed 180 43% 194 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 38.4 4K Mixed 20.3 89% 29 MB/s	DQ Read 35.1 DQ Write 57.6 DQ Mixed 20.7 23% 37.8 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 128%
TRO-SSD7-500GB 500GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 215GB free (System drive) Firmware: 560ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 152381725 (05) Reallocated sector count 89 89 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 130841883713453 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 456 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 49 (B1) Unknown 0 0 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 34 50 1005025624098 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 1005025624098 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 152381725 (C4) Reallocation count 89 89 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 152381725 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 152381725 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 21474836480 (E9) Unknown 0 0 30660 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7505 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7505 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3713	37.6% Below average	Read 317 Write 192 Mixed 176 50% 228 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 10.8 4K Mixed 8.53 42% 12 MB/s	DQ Read 22.6 DQ Write 14.6 DQ Mixed 10 10% 15.7 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 55%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 0 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7119 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22837534 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13880 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1995 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 10 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 57 571605020 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 86 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7367 (C2) HDA temperature 28 43 60129542172 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 3 0 (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 68573447859248 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1765341626 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1294840446	61.4% Good	Read 104 Write 110 Mixed 26.6 58% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 0.99 4K Mixed 0.51 102% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 923GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 162932919 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9320 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12926403843 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11643 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1990 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 571605020 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 64424509468 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 14 162932919 (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 62646392995998 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2280857588 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2178318490	67.9% Good	Read 117 Write 119 Mixed 103 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.49 122% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 68%

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 as expected (51^st percentile)	42.6% Average	MC Read 15.7 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15.6 46% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 7.7 SC Write 9 SC Mixed 8.1 24% 8.27 GB/s	Latency 148 27% 148 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 61%

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

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 - $176

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	178x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	144x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	110x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	41x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	35x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	20x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	186x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	125x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	90x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $702

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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