Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 12% Tree trunk	Desktop 56% Gunboat	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 62.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	7.41% 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	43.5% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Very high background CPU (78%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3-CF (all builds)
Memory	57.7 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20151016
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 17 '16 at 10:08
Run Duration	122 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	78%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	62.7% Good	Memory 73.1 1-Core 59.7 2-Core 106 50% 79.5 Pts	4-Core 283 8-Core 415 44% 349 Pts	64-Core 647 40% 647 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4312 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.41% Terrible	Lighting 7.73 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 7.62 6% 9 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 6.77 Splatting 15.9 10% 11.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.41% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10136292 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 119056493445121 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 21 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 20 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 31 81606410271 (C2) HDA temperature 31 31 81606410271 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10136292 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10136292 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10136292 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1769488	43.5% Average	Read 438 Write 130 Mixed 186 55% 251 MB/s	4K Read 4.26 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 3.92 49% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 79.3 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 29.1 40% 72.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 43.5% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2965400 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 2997 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (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 74 73 454164506 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 34 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 77309411354 (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 115070763794432 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15461705 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2037115	101% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 169 Mixed 170 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.17 86% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x16GB 3,127 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	69.2% Good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.8 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 27.6 SC Mixed 12.8 46% 16 GB/s	Latency 94.5 42% 94.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 130%

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Gaming 40%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 35%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	204x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	158x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	71x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	66x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	49x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	33x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	15x
750 EVO 250GBSamsung $55Bench 94%, 75,831 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	35x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	33x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x4GBHyperX $67Bench 69%, 46,617 samples	20x

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Value: 63% - Good

Total price: $526

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	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