Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 53% Yacht	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 52.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	13.2% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	59.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3 (all builds)
Memory	3.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20110415
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 23:08
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing as expected (54^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 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	52.3% Above average	Memory 63.8 1-Core 43.1 2-Core 100 42% 69 Pts	4-Core 220 8-Core 459 40% 339 Pts	64-Core 459 28% 459 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 6850 31,600 User benchmarks, average bench 12% MSI(1462 2441) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.200.1062.1004 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	13.2% Very poor	Lighting 17.4 Reflection 13.6 Parallax 14.5 14% 15.1 fps	MRender 11.5 Gravity 11.5 Splatting 17.3 11% 13.4 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.2% Great: 13%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Plextor M6S 128GB-$106 3,356 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 36GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (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 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262052 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 262052 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 672 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7 (F1) Unknown 100 100 122 (F2) Unknown 100 100 268	59.2% Above average	Read 365 Write 294 Mixed 331 74% 330 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 46.5 4K Mixed 16.8 82% 29 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 72.2 DQ Mixed 17.1 22% 39.1 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1TB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 77 1063758 (03) Spinup time 97 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 16236 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 12 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 224746929 (09) Power-on hours count 47 47 47094 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 261 (0C) Power cycle count 87 87 14239 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 21201 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 31 31 69 (BE) vendor-specific 59 41 2680749555753 (C2) HDA temperature 41 59 55834574889 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 25 1063758 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 37190121861644 (F1) Unknown 100 253 928542409 (F2) Unknown 100 253 809056297	64.8% Good	Read 112 Write 114 Mixed 73.8 74% 99.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.28 80% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x2GB 183,252 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 4 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	44.8% Average	MC Read 17 MC Write 17 MC Mixed 15 47% 16.3 GB/s	SC Read 11 SC Write 11.1 SC Mixed 12.3 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 117 34% 117 ns
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 45%

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 75%

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Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68A-D3-B3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	69x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	51x
Core i7-2600Intel $196Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	20x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	11x
GTX 680Nvidia $360Bench 32%, 38,995 samples	11x

SSD
GOODRAM 240GBBench 79%, 8,481 samples	11x
CS900 1TB SSDPNYBench 78%, 7,281 samples	8x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	5x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	66x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	45x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	18x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $446

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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