Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 65.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	36.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	52.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (73%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 (all builds)
Memory	3.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20111011
Uptime	5.6 Days
Run Date	Sep 12 '17 at 09:23
Run Duration	246 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	73%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2700K-$89 20,692 User benchmarks, average bench 73% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	65.1% Good	Memory 90.5 1-Core 92.6 2-Core 161 69% 115 Pts	4-Core 222 8-Core 291 33% 256 Pts	64-Core 294 18% 294 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% MSI(1462 3202) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	36.8% Below average	Lighting 48.3 Reflection 44.8 Parallax 44.5 39% 45.9 fps	MRender 38.6 Gravity 41.1 Splatting 37.1 32% 38.9 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SD720 256GB 312 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 118 199401251 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 87368224779916 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 227 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 1 (AE) Unknown 0 0 154 (B1) Unknown 0 0 11 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 38 57 55838310438 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 199401251 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 199401251 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 199401251 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 50345 (EA) Unknown 0 0 44742 (F1) Unknown 0 0 44742 (F2) Unknown 0 0 57893	52.2% Above average	Read 327 Write 198 Mixed 196 53% 240 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 57.9 4K Mixed 12.3 85% 32 MB/s	DQ Read 34.3 DQ Write 74.9 DQ Mixed 11.5 21% 40.3 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 92%
Transcend SSD720 64GB 105 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 11GB free Firmware: 5.0.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 18787100 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 52312701710010 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 226 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 152 (B1) Unknown 0 0 11 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 73 1090926477352 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18787100 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18787100 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18787100 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7322 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3829 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3829 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2356	37.7% Below average	Read 297 Write 61.8 Mixed 78.1 31% 145 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 39.3 4K Mixed 11.5 70% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 22.9 DQ Write 59 DQ Mixed 11 17% 30.9 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 37.7% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 228287256 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 801 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4916579 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25883 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 167 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 63 43 56591450149 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46066 (C2) HDA temperature 37 57 55834574885 (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 30627411808262 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5900650769 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7669835425	87.8% Excellent	Read 148 Write 158 Mixed 84.4 96% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.24 77% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 124GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 174067864 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 119 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 167862144 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21477 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 110 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 62 49 757071910 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 244189 (C2) HDA temperature 38 51 51539607590 (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 43555263362568 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30572579447 (F2) Unknown 100 253 245765336584	86.5% Excellent	Read 118 Write 184 Mixed 94.6 98% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.23 87% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 113%
WD My Passport 259F 2TB 3,542 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 1TB free, PID 259f Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	36.2% Below average	Read 83.2 Write 85.5 Mixed 57.6 95% 75.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.21 68% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 44%
Toshiba StorE HDD 2TB 266 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 935GB free, PID 0b16 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	17.5% Very poor	Read 37.3 Write 30.2 Mixed 17.7 34% 28.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.48 78% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 17.5% Great: 26%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	50.1% Above average	MC Read 17.7 MC Write 17.5 MC Mixed 15.7 48% 17 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 16.5 SC Mixed 16.2 44% 15.5 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 65%

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Gaming 35%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 27%

Raft

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD3 - $176

CPU
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	179x
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	144x
Core i7-2600Intel $191Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	110x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	41x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	39x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	35x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	29x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	26x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	20x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	187x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	125x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	90x

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Value: 58% - Above average

Total price: $702

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