Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	120% 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	78% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 00:29
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 91.2 1-Core 132 2-Core 265 90% 163 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 645 68% 544 Pts	64-Core 669 41% 669 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 167 Reflection 181 Parallax 155 136% 168 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 153 Splatting 116 104% 128 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 480GB-$40 16,752 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 439GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 315 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 36 (A5) Unknown 100 100 103083933762 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 54 32 292057776174 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 94490591254 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 682 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1243 (F1) Unknown 253 253 826 (F2) Unknown 253 253 445 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.4% Very good	Read 416 Write 376 Mixed 238 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 5.49 83% 36.3 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 0.07 68% 162 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 76%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 79GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 25247643 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 -28003186738319 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 648 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 561 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 78 12890013726 (C2) HDA temperature 30 78 12890013726 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 25247643 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 25247643 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 25247643 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 90 90 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 44612 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20667 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20667 (F2) Unknown 0 0 16869	78% Very good	Read 512 Write 194 Mixed 216 67% 308 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 22.7 128% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 171 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 48.2 73% 136 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 925GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 133726816 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2933 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17143851 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22017 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 557 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 65 54 588578851 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 587 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 68725 (C2) HDA temperature 35 46 8589934627 (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 90464896168959 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19867298450 (F2) Unknown 100 253 25660498891	109% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 192 Mixed 184 141% 188 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.37 113% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$580 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 180GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 736 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4673 (05) Reallocated sector count 90 90 6768 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 4307651078 (09) Power-on hours count 54 11 41118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 795 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295229447 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 47 605356068 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 523 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4877 (C2) HDA temperature 36 53 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 3 736 (C5) Current pending sector count 77 77 1896 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 77 77 1896 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -46523085732966 (F1) Unknown 100 253 762732391 (F2) Unknown 100 253 204604231	49.6% Average	Read 85.1 Write 87.7 Mixed 70.9 61% 81.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.38 72% 0.53 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 75%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$50 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 7GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 73 (03) Spinup time 138 138 25789333753 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4241 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23809 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 564 (C0) Power-off retract count 84 84 20326 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 20326 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 210453528614 (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	93.9% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 150 Mixed 152 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.2 81% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 12,409 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.9% Very good	MC Read 25 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 22.5 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 21.6 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 65.5 61% 65.5 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 112%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,220x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

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