Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an outstanding single core score, this CPU is the cat's whiskers: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.1% 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	77.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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

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

System	Gigabyte B250M-Gaming 3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF (all builds)
Memory	5.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170209
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 04:55
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.1 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 765 77% 623 Pts	64-Core 767 48% 767 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 107 Parallax 97.5 86% 103 fps	MRender 97.8 Gravity 97.7 Splatting 99.6 81% 98.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1956 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 596 (A5) Unknown 100 100 11300237478558 (A6) Unknown 100 100 12 (A7) Unknown 100 100 2 (A8) Unknown 100 100 63 (A9) Unknown 100 100 2 (AA) Unknown 100 100 2 (AB) Unknown 100 100 2 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 25 (AE) Unknown 100 100 162 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 44 32 292057776184 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3891264095114 (E8) Unknown 100 100 98 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3054 (EA) Unknown 100 100 12819 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9193 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7665 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.8% Very good	Read 507 Write 363 Mixed 241 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 95.9 4K Mixed 6.3 93% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 264 DQ Mixed 6.18 64% 147 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 78%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 463GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 85 293 (03) Spinup time 82 82 6310 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5615 (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 96 96 22187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4884 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 85 291 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1511 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 55 504692766 (C2) HDA temperature 67 52 588578849 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4718922 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 67 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	46.3% Average	Read 79.5 Write 81.8 Mixed 86.9 62% 82.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.34 81% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSE.8FBD 2x4GB 6,607 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.6% Very good	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 21.3 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 21.3 61% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 59.4 67% 59.4 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72.6% Great: 90%

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Workstation 40%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250M-Gaming 3-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	209x
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	191x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	148x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	200x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	101x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	77x

SSD
Force LE200 SSD 240GBCorsairBench 68%, 4,783 samples	44x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	39x
Force NVMe PCIe M.2 240GBCorsairBench 162%, 26,501 samples	28x

RAM
DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GBUnknownBench 72%, 21,822 samples	52x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	50x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	43x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $284

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