Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 77.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	95.6% 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	54.6% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 0 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140319
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '16 at 16:42
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-4820K-$110 23,169 User benchmarks, average bench 72% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.5% Very good	Memory 91.6 1-Core 114 2-Core 196 78% 134 Pts	4-Core 343 8-Core 556 55% 449 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 81%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5382 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.6% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 128 Parallax 113 100% 121 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 113 Splatting 99.1 86% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 80GB free (System drive) Firmware: X21100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8098 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 226 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 54 (A8) Unknown 100 100 270 (A9) Unknown 100 100 904 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 130 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 46 197569871911 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1057 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 33931 (F1) Unknown 253 253 14755 (F2) Unknown 253 253 31971 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	54.6% Above average	Read 332 Write 238 Mixed 282 63% 284 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 46.3 4K Mixed 15.6 85% 29.5 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 54.5 DQ Mixed 14.9 19% 32.5 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 114%
WD WD10EACS-00ZJB0 1TB 28,352 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 431GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 160 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7315 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 43995 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2507 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7221 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 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	48.2% Average	Read 83.7 Write 83.9 Mixed 81.8 63% 83.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.26 90% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 51%
Seagate ST3320418AS 320GB-$33 24,309 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 51GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 128082632 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5793 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 56 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 391213022405 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29189 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1499 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 1442661 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 65 55 589430819 (C2) HDA temperature 35 45 77309411363 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 14 128082632 (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 119601954323559 (F1) Unknown 100 253 737762193 (F2) Unknown 100 253 591394287	39.8% Below average	Read 66.1 Write 72.5 Mixed 65.1 51% 67.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.61 126% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance Pro DDR3 2x8GB 1,351 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	63.9% Good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 19 MC Mixed 22.9 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 12.6 38% 13.4 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 55%

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Gaming 44%

Speed boat

Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 - $380

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	432x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	202x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	146x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	65x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	53x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	45x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
MX500 500GBCrucial $49Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	23x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	22x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	35x
F3 DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBG.SKILLBench 57%, 2,734 samples	28x
F3 DDR3 1600 C10 4x8GBG.SKILLBench 65%, 473 samples	15x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $577

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	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) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16