Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	14% 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	50.1% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X79-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111226
Uptime	6.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 11 '18 at 12:32
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3930K-$280 33,172 User benchmarks, average bench 74% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 97.8 2-Core 199 76% 130 Pts	4-Core 379 8-Core 585 60% 482 Pts	64-Core 711 44% 711 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 7770 38,053 User benchmarks, average bench 12% Device(2319 1787) 1GB CLim: 1109 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 17.12.2 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	14% Very poor	Lighting 16.9 Reflection 18.3 Parallax 22.9 14% 19.4 fps	MRender 15 Gravity 15.3 Splatting 20.7 14% 17 fps
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 14% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM0 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 92 92 39490 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 440 (B1) Unknown 82 82 629 (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 62 48 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 252 (EB) Unknown 99 99 338 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22239532032	50.1% Above average	Read 294 Write 183 Mixed 184 49% 220 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 32.6 4K Mixed 17.8 72% 23.7 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 41.2 53% 95.2 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 110%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7057 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 11086 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 22413 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 296 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 54 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11215 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 266289217578 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 79 79 8697 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 211 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 55% Great: 104%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 5TB 1,185 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 642GB free, PID d011 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	22.3% Poor	Read 41.4 Write 42 Mixed 41.4 54% 41.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.9 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.2 88% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 22.3% Great: 81%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM3X4GBA1600C 2x4GB 46 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 23.2 MC Write 20.3 MC Mixed 19.4 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 13.2 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 59%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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	432x
Core i7-3930KIntel $280Bench 74%, 33,172 samples	200x
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 $46Bench 106%, 237,241 samples	23x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 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 $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