Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 5% Tree trunk	Desktop 66% Battle cruiser	Workstation 4% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 75.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	5.51% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	18GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 18GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3 (all builds)
Memory	14.9 GB free of 18 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20120320
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 06 '17 at 15:52
Run Duration	259 Seconds
Run User	IND-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-2500K-$246 143,007 User benchmarks, average bench 66% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Memory 89.7 1-Core 92.4 2-Core 183 72% 122 Pts	4-Core 356 8-Core 357 48% 356 Pts	64-Core 361 22% 361 Pts
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 79%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 730 164,888 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 3666) 2GB CLim: 901 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	5.51% Terrible	Lighting 6.87 Reflection 7.27 Parallax 8.09 6% 7.41 fps	MRender 4.67 Gravity 7.27 Splatting 7.22 5% 6.38 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.51% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 885GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 68 64 6554246 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 46 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5480724 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 65 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 63 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 555417632 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 63 (C2) HDA temperature 32 27 115964117024 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 6554246 (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 59979218288705 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3126968060 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2789656380	88.4% Excellent	Read 155 Write 154 Mixed 78.8 95% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.26 90% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 113%
SRT POLLEX 8G 8GB 42 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 4GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	4.78% Terrible	Read 16.9 Write 5.74 Mixed 7.89 11% 10.2 MB/s	4K Read 4.47 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.006 17% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.78% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 18GB 8,131 User benchmarks, average bench 42% null MHz 2048, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	30.4% Below average	MC Read 9.9 MC Write 9.7 MC Mixed 8.8 27% 9.47 GB/s	SC Read 9.4 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 9.6 28% 9.63 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 30.4% Great: 57%

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Gaming 22%

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Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 18%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68P-DS3

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	99x
Core i7-2600Intel $196Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	65x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	61x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	26x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	26x
RX 570AMD $130Bench 45%, 473,685 samples	26x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	24x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	14x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x

RAM
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	126x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	111x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	63x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $333

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