Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% 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 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 84.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	257% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160301
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '16 at 09:00
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	32%

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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 3.95 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84.1% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 121 2-Core 240 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 391 8-Core 607 62% 499 Pts	64-Core 636 39% 636 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 150 Parallax 139 110% 141 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 129 Splatting 108 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 349GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,165 Write 1,429 Mixed 1,449 372% 1,681 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 141 4K Mixed 49.9 207% 78.7 MB/s	DQ Read 517 DQ Write 389 DQ Mixed 221 228% 376 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 283%
Samsung HD642JJ 640GB-$70 13,060 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 123GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 85 85 5420 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6250 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 11676 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2418 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 84 62 269484048 (C2) HDA temperature 79 61 353370133 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 37064 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	46.9% Average	Read 85.1 Write 78 Mixed 85.7 63% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.35 91% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 46.9% Great: 63%
WD WD1500ADFD-00NLR1 150GB 1,859 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 60GB free Firmware: 20.07P20 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 163 159 4866 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6413 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30568 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4003 (C2) HDA temperature 120 94 27 (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 200 253 9 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	34.4% Below average	Read 56.5 Write 63.1 Mixed 59.7 45% 59.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.49 122% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 47%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 41GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 88 103253885 (03) Spinup time 90 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8547 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 219420644 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30392 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3985 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 53 487981085 (C2) HDA temperature 29 47 60129542173 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 82 49 130392049 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	30.7% Below average	Read 52.3 Write 54.4 Mixed 50.8 40% 52.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.39 83% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 30.7% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	MC Read 33.3 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 29.4 96% 33.5 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 37.4 SC Mixed 27.2 80% 27.9 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	305x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	379x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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