Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 72.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is 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	91.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). 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-X79-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	1 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20120705
Uptime	11.9 Days
Run Date	May 01 '17 at 15:13
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	TUR-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3820 38,674 User benchmarks, average bench 70% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 5.9 GHz, turbo 5.85 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	72.4% Very good	Memory 91.3 1-Core 86.9 2-Core 165 69% 114 Pts	4-Core 290 8-Core 428 45% 359 Pts	64-Core 469 29% 469 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 122 Parallax 119 91% 117 fps	MRender 99.4 Gravity 104 Splatting 97.5 82% 100 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1332 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 198 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 67 65 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7229097091	91.5% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 365 Mixed 407 95% 426 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 39.9 129% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 88.2 94% 157 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$49 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 120GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 153928416 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2980 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55680989 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9921 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2135 (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 66 56 13456703522 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 101004 (C2) HDA temperature 34 44 -140737488355294 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -28810640617205 (F1) Unknown 100 253 27378325260 (F2) Unknown 100 253 32764512313	53.7% Above average	Read 111 Write 74.7 Mixed 81.2 67% 89.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 4.59 4K Mixed 0.27 139% 1.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 114%
ST4000DM 000-1F2168 4TB 108 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 641GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	48.7% Average	Read 102 Write 133 Mixed 134 166% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.2 61% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 59%
ST1000DM 003-1ER162 1TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 347GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	57.9% Above average	Read 164 Write 131 Mixed 11.2 112% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.19 69% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-037.A 1x8GB 109 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	31.4% Below average	MC Read 10.8 MC Write 9.1 MC Mixed 9.5 28% 9.8 GB/s	SC Read 10 SC Write 11.2 SC Mixed 8.8 29% 10 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 31.4% Great: 32%

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

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Gaming 44%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 36%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 - $380

CPU
Core i7-3820IntelBench 70%, 38,674 samples	438x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	204x
Core i7-4820KIntel $110Bench 72%, 23,169 samples	149x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	65x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	48x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	53x
MX500 500GBCrucial $48Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	23x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	23x

RAM
HyperX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GBKingstonBench 67%, 1,867 samples	36x
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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