Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 67% Battle cruiser	Workstation 5% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	3.81% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2 (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150806
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '17 at 15:11
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4460-$194 245,403 User benchmarks, average bench 62% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 90.8 1-Core 97.1 2-Core 194 74% 127 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 379 50% 376 Pts	64-Core 365 23% 365 Pts
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 72%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
ATI Radeon HD 5400 10,400 User benchmarks, average bench 1% PwrHis(1787 3000) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.11% Terrible	Lighting 1.37 Reflection 1.73 Parallax 1.59 1% 1.56 fps	MRender 1.62 Gravity 0.83 Splatting 1.52 1% 1.32 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.11% Great: 1%
Intel HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)-$15 230,189 User benchmarks, average bench 3% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4531 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	3.81% Terrible	Lighting 3.77 Reflection 6.31 Parallax 6.62 3% 5.57 fps	MRender 9.05 Gravity 2.27 Splatting 7.61 5% 6.31 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.81% Great: 3%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 613GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 73 64 21093921 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 33 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4338131 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 125 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 33 (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 60 53 690421800 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 34 (C2) HDA temperature 40 23 98784247848 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 21093921 (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 90525025697917 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1038875326 (F2) Unknown 100 253 558600705	96% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 153 Mixed 160 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.28 103% 1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 113%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 9,009 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 696GB free, PID a006 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	19.7% Very poor	Read 38.6 Write 40.6 Mixed 40.4 52% 39.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.22 66% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 19.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5584-005.A00LF 99U5471-020.A00LF 8GB 77 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	52.5% Above average	MC Read 18.3 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 15.9 51% 17.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.8 SC Mixed 17.1 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 52.5% Great: 52%

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

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Typical GA-H81M-DS2 Builds (Compare 3,301 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 6%

Tree trunk

Desktop 59%

Gunboat

Workstation 6%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H81M-DS2 - $51

CPU
Core i5-4460Intel $194Bench 62%, 245,403 samples	487x
Core i3-4160Intel $79Bench 55%, 48,506 samples	269x
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	265x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	354x
HD 4400 (Desktop 1.15 GHz)IntelBench 3%, 64,721 samples	339x
HD Graphics (G4 Pentium/Celeron 1.05/1.15 GHz)IntelBench 2%, 43,454 samples	220x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	113x
A400 120GBKingston $28Bench 61%, 166,392 samples	87x
SU650 120GBAdata $14Bench 63%, 42,288 samples	53x

RAM
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	84x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	62x
1x4GBUnknownBench 28%, 154,807 samples	59x

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Value: 62% - Good

Total price: $288

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16