Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 79.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	64.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20121024
Uptime	11.6 Days
Run Date	May 18 '18 at 15:58
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (54^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-3770-$297 278,207 User benchmarks, average bench 69% Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770 CPU @ 3.40GHz, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	79.6% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 109 2-Core 216 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 357 8-Core 550 56% 453 Pts	64-Core 548 34% 548 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 76%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 4000 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)-$15 52,547 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 2GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 10.18.10.4276 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 3% Great: 3%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3730) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 155 Parallax 132 115% 143 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 135 Splatting 113 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 512GB-$283 5,683 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13346 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1331 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 144 (AE) Unknown 100 100 29 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 50 214749151271 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 59130526916 (F7) Unknown 100 100 1864637437 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2971715584	64.7% Good	Read 294 Write 360 Mixed 207 64% 287 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 15 95% 39.4 MB/s	DQ Read 28.9 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 18.8 30% 55.2 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 111%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 357GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 67 67 10740 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3127 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 42005 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2321 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 52 420282393 (C2) HDA temperature 69 52 520945695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 34929 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	52.9% Above average	Read 88.3 Write 95.5 Mixed 82.8 67% 88.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.41 114% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 62%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 203GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2136 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 22679 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2131 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 80 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2055 (C2) HDA temperature 112 96 31 (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	62.9% Good	Read 125 Write 94.5 Mixed 56.5 68% 92 MB/s	4K Read 1.03 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 0.27 83% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 109%
Freecom Hard Drive XS 1.5TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 24GB free, PID null Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	15.1% Very poor	Read 32 Write 26.7 Mixed 29.1 37% 29.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.32 63% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 15.1% Great: 16%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C9 4x4GB 22,320 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	55.8% Above average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 19 MC Mixed 17 54% 18.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 19.2 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 63%

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

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Gaming 33%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z77-HD3

CPU
Core i7-3770Intel $297Bench 69%, 278,207 samples	88x
Core i5-3570KIntel $136Bench 68%, 185,516 samples	62x
Core i7-3770KIntel $175Bench 72%, 165,979 samples	54x

GPU
GTX 1650Nvidia $155Bench 43%, 259,091 samples	25x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	22x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	18x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	22x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	10x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	8x

RAM
Savage DDR3 1600 C9 2x4GBHyperXBench 51%, 78,181 samples	9x
Atermiter 0080 Atermiter 059B 99P5471-016.A00LF 24GBUnknownBench 50%, 9 samples	7x
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	6x

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Value: 64% - Good

Total price: $480

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