Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 87.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.9% 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	249% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161205
Uptime	2.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 15:39
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.2% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 127 2-Core 253 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 701 70% 570 Pts	64-Core 702 44% 702 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 1B81) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2127 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 116 Parallax 110 90% 112 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 103 Splatting 102 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 223GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4187635 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -125292785958593 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 88 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 13 (B1) Unknown 0 0 95 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 42 77312163867 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 77312163867 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4187635 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4187635 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4187635 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294963605 (EA) Unknown 0 0 877 (F1) Unknown 0 0 877 (F2) Unknown 0 0 840 (F4) Unknown 95 95 196673691	66% Good	Read 496 Write 192 Mixed 232 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 11.8 95% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 120 DQ Write 206 DQ Mixed 44.9 67% 123 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 84%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 203GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	249% Outstanding	Read 2,441 Write 1,316 Mixed 1,393 378% 1,716 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 42.3 176% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 596 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 222 210% 340 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 249% Great: 254%
Toshiba Q300 480GB-$152 5,920 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 90GB free Firmware: SAFM12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1436 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 318 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C2) HDA temperature 72 60 171799740444	67.6% Good	Read 493 Write 269 Mixed 277 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 47 4K Mixed 7.79 73% 26.6 MB/s	DQ Read 318 DQ Write 177 DQ Mixed 36.3 84% 177 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 99%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 100 100 25769803776 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3 (C2) HDA temperature 187 187 146030395424 (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	100% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 176 Mixed 162 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.24 114% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.3 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 30.5 SC Mixed 24.7 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 80%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	299x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	96x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	136x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	78x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	24x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	29x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	15x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

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