Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	89.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-HD3-CF (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	20160311
Uptime	2.7 Days
Run Date	Feb 04 '17 at 22:24
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (82^nd 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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 127 2-Core 243 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 678 70% 564 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 153 Parallax 131 119% 143 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 136 Splatting 113 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 540s Series 480GB 4,519 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 314GB free (System drive) Firmware: LSF036C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 26 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 164 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 29 35 42951966749 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 15695 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15695 (F2) Unknown 100 100 23359 (F9) Unknown 100 100 225 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0	89.1% Excellent	Read 503 Write 461 Mixed 459 106% 474 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 34.1 4K Mixed 31.8 86% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 310 DQ Mixed 83.3 122% 227 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 95%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$84 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 180 5866 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 291 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1139 (C2) HDA temperature 119 111 31 (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	88.7% Excellent	Read 149 Write 160 Mixed 141 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.29 109% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 84%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 92GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 138 4025 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3642 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18812 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2961 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3467 (C2) HDA temperature 107 91 36 (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 200 200 34 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 28% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 2400 2OZ 2x8GB 21,822 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 22.8 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 29.3 SC Mixed 22.4 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 83%

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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	159x
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 $94Bench 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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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