Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 76.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	96.3% 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	44.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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-Z68AP-D3 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit farger, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120321
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 16 '17 at 18:37
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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 above expectations (78^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	Memory 91.1 1-Core 93.8 2-Core 179 72% 121 Pts	4-Core 334 8-Core 470 50% 402 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1425) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	96.3% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 137 Parallax 122 100% 127 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 126 Splatting 101 90% 111 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 92 92 3649345 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 -66468913852046 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5489 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 61 (B1) Unknown 0 0 14 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3649345 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3649345 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3649345 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 25478 (EA) Unknown 0 0 22687 (F1) Unknown 0 0 22687 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17535	44.6% Average	Read 305 Write 135 Mixed 164 44% 201 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 41.7 4K Mixed 13.8 72% 25.7 MB/s	DQ Read 20.4 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 11.2 23% 44.9 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 44.6% Great: 82%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 433GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9135 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12864 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8591 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5998 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 44 240518889496 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 124 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 12900	69.3% Good	Read 105 Write 137 Mixed 114 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.47 118% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 75%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 642GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 162 6816 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8263 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20594 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5514 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 112 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 325165 (C2) HDA temperature 124 115 26 (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	46% Average	Read 90.8 Write 69.6 Mixed 44.4 50% 68.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.22 69% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46% Great: 67%
WD 10EADS External 1TB 3,369 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 27GB free, PID 1003 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	17.1% Very poor	Read 35.7 Write 33.9 Mixed 34.4 44% 34.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.24 59% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 17.1% Great: 21%

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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	49.1% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 17.2 MC Mixed 15.2 47% 16.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 16.9 SC Mixed 16.1 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 35%

Sail boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	365x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	237x
Core i7-2600Intel $197Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	166x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	102x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	94x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	88x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	41x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	36x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	27x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	385x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	289x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	168x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $474

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