Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% 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	74.6% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 29 '17 at 16:16
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	19%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 248 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 744 72% 595 Pts	64-Core 745 46% 745 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 140 Parallax 129 106% 133 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 120 Splatting 105 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk S2128G 1TB 376GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 261 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3465 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1177 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 31218 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 681 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 206 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 57 201863987223 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 4082 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 260 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 508620	8.11% Terrible	Read 74 Write 76.9 Mixed 77.8 17% 76.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.19 2% 0.68 MB/s

St1000lm024 HN-M101MBB 240GB 44 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 155GB free Firmware: P0414B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 158 (A3) Unknown 100 100 10 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2085 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 52 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4785 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1732 (F5) Unknown 100 100 8340	114% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 458 Mixed 490 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 47.6 167% 63.9 MB/s	DQ Read 315 DQ Write 325 DQ Mixed 82.8 128% 241 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 88%
AMD Radeon R3 240GB 4,257 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0422C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 556 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 131 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 208 (A3) Unknown 100 100 12 (A4) Unknown 100 100 29687 (A5) Unknown 100 100 79 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 14 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 37 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 174824 (F2) Unknown 100 100 294678 (F5) Unknown 100 100 118748	74.6% Very good	Read 474 Write 246 Mixed 269 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 61.6 4K Mixed 22.9 100% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 298 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 46.2 85% 173 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 90%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 48GB free Firmware: X211200 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 25348 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 629 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 248 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 169 (AE) Unknown 100 100 82 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 41 176094248984 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1343 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1343 (F1) Unknown 253 253 20268667964 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11039931929 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	76.7% Very good	Read 426 Write 241 Mixed 298 71% 321 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 22.1 120% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 46 79% 157 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 91%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$57 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.6% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 20.5 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 23.2 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 107%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,220x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

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