Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	10.5% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	72.2% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151012
Uptime	15.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 09 '16 at 12:41
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	LVA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	Memory 92.2 1-Core 146 2-Core 292 97% 177 Pts	4-Core 548 8-Core 801 84% 675 Pts	64-Core 799 50% 799 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Gigabyte(1458 351A) 1GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6200 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.5% Very poor	Lighting 11.8 Reflection 13.9 Parallax 9.91 10% 11.9 fps	MRender 16 Gravity 12.6 Splatting 16 12% 14.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.5% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX900 128GB-$103 6,500 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: 6.0.3b Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7504374 (05) Reallocated sector count 82 82 23 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -100004018517984 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 187 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 17 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 45 64427458594 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7504374 (C4) Reallocation count 82 82 23 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7504374 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7504374 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 83 83 120259084289 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2485 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1946 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1946 (F2) Unknown 0 0 996	72.2% Very good	Read 462 Write 151 Mixed 223 61% 279 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 19.9 129% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 170 DQ Write 153 DQ Mixed 54.9 70% 126 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 82%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 788GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 148 139 3591 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 380 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2073 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4507 (C2) HDA temperature 116 109 27 (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	76.8% Very good	Read 146 Write 121 Mixed 112 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.25 97% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 23.1 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI - $129

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	597x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	571x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	159x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	261x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	154x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	146x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	108x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	58x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	43x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $485

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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