Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.9% 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	67.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120822
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 12 '17 at 05:51
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770K-$175 165,979 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3.50GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 96.5 1-Core 102 2-Core 207 79% 135 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 522 55% 441 Pts	64-Core 533 33% 533 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 114 Parallax 94.6 91% 107 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 102 Splatting 100 82% 99.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3120 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 967 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (A8) Unknown 100 100 145 (A9) Unknown 100 100 83 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 41 (AE) Unknown 100 100 11 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 33 141734707231 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 292 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5498 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3118 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4686 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	67.5% Good	Read 432 Write 242 Mixed 217 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 48.6 4K Mixed 20.5 86% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 46 79% 156 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 91%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 173 6016 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2134 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2104 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 961 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 36453 (C2) HDA temperature 119 114 31 (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	83.2% Excellent	Read 152 Write 138 Mixed 131 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.24 92% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1866 C9 4x4GB 5,448 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	66.3% Good	MC Read 23.6 MC Write 23.8 MC Mixed 20.9 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 21 56% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 86%

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 32%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H - $333

CPU
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	521x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	435x
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	287x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	115x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	103x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	92x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	66x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	57x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	31x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 56%, 28,461 samples	44x
Vengeance LP DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 50%, 23,732 samples	43x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBCorsairBench 53%, 34,385 samples	38x

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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $665

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 $182	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) $30	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