Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 85.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.6% 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	55% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	27.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150803
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '17 at 02:20
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing as expected (50^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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.4% Excellent	Memory 81.3 1-Core 146 2-Core 273 91% 167 Pts	4-Core 482 8-Core 746 76% 614 Pts	64-Core 763 47% 763 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 111 Parallax 100 88% 106 fps	MRender 92.6 Gravity 99 Splatting 87.3 76% 93 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX200 500GB-$90 17,487 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 174GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^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 100 100 202 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 734 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 23 (B4) Unknown 0 0 5545 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 57 184684642329 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 10648860799 (F7) Unknown 100 100 332847630 (F8) Unknown 100 100 76150767	80.4% Excellent	Read 495 Write 362 Mixed 372 91% 410 MB/s	4K Read 19.9 4K Write 78.9 4K Mixed 21.7 100% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 120 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 32.4 71% 140 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 105%
Plextor M8Pe NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$114 581 User benchmarks, average bench 143% 29GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.02 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	55% Above average	Read 201 Write 123 Mixed 448 58% 257 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 27.8 108% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35.2 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 16.9 50% 101 MB/s
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 164%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$120 9,888 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 104 (03) Spinup time 123 123 42983948830 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 28 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 85 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 24 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 29 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 167504904226 (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 200 200 0	91.1% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 147 Mixed 155 119% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.76 4K Mixed 0.37 130% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 113%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2014)-$220 1,278 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 18408328 (03) Spinup time 87 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1145 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 322858747 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4200 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1123 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 32 68 (BE) vendor-specific 65 56 605224995 (BF) G-sense error rate 94 94 12321 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3988 (C2) HDA temperature 35 44 68719476771 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 55 45 18408328 (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 -102748502617984 (F1) Unknown 100 253 100111534598 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2466106959681	109% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 193 Mixed 151 132% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.38 120% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 118%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.4% Very good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 22.6 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 22.9 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 78.2 51% 78.2 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 119%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,234x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	476x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	484x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	394x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $86Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16