Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3P-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 94.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	80.8% 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.

System	Gigabyte B250-HD3P
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3P-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 12 '17 at 20:39
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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-$241 712,312 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 (98^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 141 2-Core 280 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 521 8-Core 732 79% 627 Pts	64-Core 770 48% 770 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gainward(10B0 13C0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1468 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Lighting 82.7 Reflection 85.7 Parallax 73.8 67% 80.7 fps	MRender 79.7 Gravity 69.2 Splatting 66.1 58% 71.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D 250GB-$47 23,658 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 204GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (A5) Unknown 100 100 589829 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 38 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 164 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 34 146030526498 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4294967297 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 21 (EA) Unknown 100 100 35 (F1) Unknown 253 253 33 (F2) Unknown 253 253 15 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.8% Excellent	Read 492 Write 258 Mixed 272 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 19.7 112% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 9.3 80% 190 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2698088 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 2384 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (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 69 69 521601055 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 39 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 94489280543 (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 21693879812097 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2948719 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1607863	85.6% Excellent	Read 147 Write 152 Mixed 152 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.24 88% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	44.7% Average	MC Read 15.9 MC Write 15.5 MC Mixed 12.5 42% 14.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 15.3 SC Mixed 14.4 41% 14.3 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 88%

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Gaming 43%

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Desktop 77%

Battleship

Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B250-HD3P-CF

CPU
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	193x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	123x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	102x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	139x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	108x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	35x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	20x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	28x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	18x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	17x

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Value: 102% - Outstanding

Total price: $276

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	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) $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