Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 74.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	67.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4 (all builds)
Memory	10.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, ,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20111012
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Jun 04 '18 at 16:33
Run Duration	288 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-2600K-$319 147,533 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Socket 1155, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Memory 95.2 1-Core 89.6 2-Core 171 72% 119 Pts	4-Core 292 8-Core 434 45% 363 Pts	64-Core 431 27% 431 Pts
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 83%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 560 Ti-$188 42,397 User benchmarks, average bench 16% Gigabyte(1458 3515) 1GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 1002 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 15% Great: 18%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 239GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4162000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3323 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 58 (A5) Unknown 100 100 74384174 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 50 (A8) Unknown 100 100 10 (A9) Unknown 100 100 457 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 47 201864904741 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2336464044576 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1488 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7844 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3294 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3463 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67.5% Good	Read 492 Write 286 Mixed 271 77% 350 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 41.9 4K Mixed 15 80% 27.4 MB/s	DQ Read 186 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 9.8 47% 107 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 104%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 141GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 6577 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 129 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12888637477 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 47 (A8) Unknown 100 100 17 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 107 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 42 180390133801 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 73015754772 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 147 (EA) Unknown 100 100 211 (F1) Unknown 253 253 180 (F2) Unknown 253 253 368 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	68.5% Good	Read 470 Write 324 Mixed 322 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 47.3 4K Mixed 19.3 87% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 31.2 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 46.8 47% 72.9 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 101%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$82 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 186 177 5675 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 15 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 799 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 87 (C2) HDA temperature 125 118 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	64.6% Good	Read 114 Write 111 Mixed 83.8 77% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.26 95% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 88%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 294GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 164 6066 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 437 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 44 44 41273 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 413 (C0) Power-off retract count 196 196 3093 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 1172953 (C2) HDA temperature 125 107 25 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	37.8% Below average	Read 70.2 Write 61.3 Mixed 18.9 37% 50.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.15 63% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 59%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 3.5TB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	26.1% Poor	Read 33 Write 30.2 Mixed 7.75 28% 23.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.34 4K Write 4.69 4K Mixed 0.34 176% 2.12 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 26.1% Great: 59%
WDC WD30 EFRX-68EUZN0 3TB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 1TB free, PID 1153 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	43.3% Average	Read 114 Write 98.9 Mixed 104 134% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.27 68% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 43%
WD My Book Essentials 1TB 3,704 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 783GB free, PID 1110 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	18% Very poor	Read 36 Write 34.1 Mixed 22.8 38% 30.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.17 66% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 18% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 4x4GB 106,178 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	MC Read 18.8 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 17.8 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 16.9 SC Mixed 17.4 48% 16.7 GB/s	Latency 56.5 71% 56.5 ns
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 61%

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Gaming 42%

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Desktop 77%

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Workstation 34%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z68XP-UD4

CPU
Core i7-2600KIntel $319Bench 71%, 147,533 samples	107x
Core i7-2600Intel $188Bench 67%, 185,630 samples	60x
Core i5-2500KIntel $246Bench 66%, 143,007 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	25x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
GTX 1060-3GBNvidia $119Bench 52%, 627,793 samples	14x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	15x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	12x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	9x

RAM
4x4GBUnknownBench 43%, 106,178 samples	118x
2x4GBUnknownBench 39%, 424,126 samples	46x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	22x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $512

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

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