Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	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.

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System	Gigabyte Gaming B8
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170706
Uptime	3.3 Days
Run Date	Dec 27 '17 at 04:19
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	Memory 79.6 1-Core 101 2-Core 205 73% 129 Pts	4-Core 393 8-Core 396 53% 395 Pts	64-Core 393 24% 393 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 132 Reflection 142 Parallax 132 108% 136 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 127 Splatting 103 92% 113 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 379 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 53 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 64 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8477986	87% Excellent	Read 506 Write 405 Mixed 420 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 80.6 4K Mixed 23.2 122% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 42.6 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 105 89% 124 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 326GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 172 2366 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 566 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 560 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 110 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 532 (C2) HDA temperature 106 99 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.8% Excellent	Read 156 Write 129 Mixed 130 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.24 101% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 109%
SABRENT SD 128GB 64 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 81GB free, PID 0749 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	43.5% Average	Read 91.4 Write 82 Mixed 77.7 106% 83.7 MB/s	4K Read 7.55 4K Write 3.44 4K Mixed 2.03 214% 4.34 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GB 22,335 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.6% Below average	MC Read 13.3 MC Write 13.6 MC Mixed 11.9 37% 12.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.5 SC Write 13.3 SC Mixed 12.3 34% 12 GB/s	Latency 81.3 49% 81.3 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 88%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Gaming B8-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	107x
Core i5-7500Intel $89Bench 67%, 149,467 samples	92x
Core i5-7400Intel $88Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	52x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	58x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	45x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	41x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	17x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 1x8GBCorsair $25Bench 42%, 47,473 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	11x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $254

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16