Gigabyte GA-Q87M-D2H

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 81.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.7% 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	82.3% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Q87M-D2H (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20140910
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '17 at 23:39
Run Duration	179 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-4690-$52 73,695 User benchmarks, average bench 67% SOCKET 0, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Memory 87.6 1-Core 110 2-Core 219 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 439 59% 438 Pts	64-Core 436 27% 436 Pts
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 120 Parallax 108 93% 114 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 103 Splatting 92.7 80% 98.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 66GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 529 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 141 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 65 57 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1251094556	82.3% Excellent	Read 474 Write 264 Mixed 273 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 35 4K Write 57.5 4K Mixed 26.7 118% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 60.9 100% 198 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 110%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 743GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 60 0 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6350 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2349 (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 99 99 7228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2324 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 61 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 2618 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 63 302710802 (C2) HDA temperature 78 61 369819670 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5290181 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 97 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	55.9% Above average	Read 93.2 Write 102 Mixed 94.7 73% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.38 90% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 59%
SAMSUNG HD502HI 500GB 31 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 205GB free, PID 2338 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	17.6% Very poor	Read 29 Write 35.4 Mixed 4.28 28% 22.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.35 76% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 17.6% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown SEB4GB681CAQ-16IC 0737 SEB4GB681CAE-16IC 1302 PSD34G13332 1302 PSD34G13332 16GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1333, 1333, 1333, 1333 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.6% Above average	MC Read 18.6 MC Write 19.3 MC Mixed 17 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.1 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 69.9 57% 69.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 61%

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Gaming 8%

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Desktop 61%

Destroyer

Workstation 8%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Q87M-D2H

CPU
Core i5-4590Intel $188Bench 63%, 151,366 samples	74x
Core i7-4790Intel $135Bench 71%, 255,027 samples	52x
Core i7-4770Intel $75Bench 70%, 176,321 samples	38x

GPU
HD 4600 (Desktop 1.25 GHz)Intel $15Bench 3%, 230,189 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	34x
RX 580AMD $130Bench 52%, 360,351 samples	21x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	12x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	12x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	6x

RAM
M378B5273EB0-CK0 4x4GBSamsungBench 61%, 430 samples	9x
KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/8G KHX1600C10D3/4G KHX1600C10D3/4G 16GBKingstonBench 53%, 358 samples	6x
HyperX DDR3 1866 C10 1x8GBKingstonBench 32%, 29,968 samples	5x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $231

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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