Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.9% 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	91.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (20%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 07 '17 at 04:28
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	20%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.9% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 282 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 496 8-Core 793 79% 645 Pts	64-Core 796 49% 796 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 121 Parallax 97.9 98% 113 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 109 Splatting 107 88% 108 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 268GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 734 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 33 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2359320 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 27 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 453 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 59 253404250136 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 25769803782 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 437 (EA) Unknown 100 100 503 (F1) Unknown 253 253 493 (F2) Unknown 253 253 448 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	80.2% Excellent	Read 499 Write 352 Mixed 339 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 43.4 4K Mixed 21.8 95% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 248 DQ Write 213 DQ Mixed 40.7 82% 167 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 108%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 145GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^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 15 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 74 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 59 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 78 60 171799805974 (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 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2173571713 (F7) Unknown 100 100 68001518 (F8) Unknown 100 100 24362750 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1932 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	83.4% Excellent	Read 484 Write 328 Mixed 324 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 76.5 4K Mixed 25.9 114% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 14.6 66% 150 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 99%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 124GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Read 1,644 Write 73.6 Mixed 116 128% 611 MB/s	4K Read 49.7 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 2.51 79% 17.9 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 243%
Apple SD0128F PCIe 121GB 595 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 40GB free Firmware: A222821 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^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 1693 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10665 (A9) Unknown 100 100 734613472992 (AD) Unknown 193 193 34374287467 (AE) Unknown 100 100 8864552 (AF) Unknown 100 100 8798572 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 123 (C2) HDA temperature 38 38 356483924030 (C5) Current pending sector count 0 0 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 0 0 0	94.4% Outstanding	Read 524 Write 301 Mixed 376 88% 400 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 25.1 155% 62.2 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 57.9 89% 169 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 110%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 204 142 8791 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 316 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17734 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 304 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 134 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 181 (C2) HDA temperature 121 98 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	81.1% Excellent	Read 130 Write 152 Mixed 140 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 2.94 4K Mixed 0.23 98% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 491GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 6532872 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1039 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 61381761 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19280 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 374 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 74 54 471400474 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 182 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 67 67 67720 (C2) HDA temperature 26 46 42949672986 (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 -88003879880886 (F1) Unknown 100 253 89273748753 (F2) Unknown 100 253 49739143381	105% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 185 Mixed 170 134% 179 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.31 96% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	77.8% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 24 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 19.6 SC Write 30.8 SC Mixed 24.6 71% 25 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 85%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	380x
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 $94Bench 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	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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