Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	31.5% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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 (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z170-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161109
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 20 '17 at 10:02
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 230 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 651 65% 529 Pts	64-Core 652 40% 652 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 117 Parallax 103 90% 110 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 102 Splatting 91 78% 96.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 334GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1520 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 327 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8603435164 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 57 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1032 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 18 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 66 283469021211 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 188980396076 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 829 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1495 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1346 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1059 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74% Very good	Read 486 Write 341 Mixed 310 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 9.74 103% 39.8 MB/s	DQ Read 28.9 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 41.9 53% 87.9 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 104%
Intel X25-M 160GB 7,078 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2687 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 418 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 35 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 46204 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 10254927 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 1 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 1009989524 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	31.5% Below average	Read 254 Write 79 Mixed 53.3 28% 129 MB/s	4K Read 18.4 4K Write 37.6 4K Mixed 5.97 55% 20.6 MB/s	DQ Read 18.3 DQ Write 21.1 DQ Mixed 36 23% 25.1 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 31.5% Great: 46%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 438GB free Firmware: CC62 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 235541808 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 873 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 125322469 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5888 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 860 (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 73 59 454492187 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 86 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 879 (C2) HDA temperature 27 41 68719476763 (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 -84099754617054 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -62582475085681 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -3197761071488	90.8% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 145 Mixed 147 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.3 99% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G4D240FSA.8FAR 859B BLS4G4D240FSA.8FAR 0616 DDR4-2400 CL16 8GB 16GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	45.3% Average	MC Read 16.9 MC Write 16.4 MC Mixed 12.2 43% 15.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 14.7 SC Mixed 12.9 40% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 57%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 48%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - $113

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	481x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	195x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	236x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	179x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	118x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	74x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	50x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	58x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	49x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $506

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16