Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	98.6% 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	92.3% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 29 '17 at 13:35
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Memory 85.3 1-Core 136 2-Core 272 90% 164 Pts	4-Core 532 8-Core 529 71% 531 Pts	64-Core 527 33% 527 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.6% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 123 Parallax 98.4 99% 114 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 138 Splatting 109 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 154GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1527 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 166 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 18 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3778475899	92.3% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 408 Mixed 417 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 43.2 4K Write 92.4 4K Mixed 26.2 148% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 47.6 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 26 34% 59.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 99GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1332 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 141 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 50 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1919375920	113% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 96.3 4K Mixed 44.9 176% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 117 139% 244 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 869GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 9 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8450 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1934 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 15233 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1862 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 144 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1789 (C2) HDA temperature 126 91 26 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	67.9% Good	Read 121 Write 116 Mixed 84.6 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.45 119% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 72GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 11957647 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10896 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 200 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 301814247 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19871 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3257 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 43 43 57 (BC) Unknown 100 83 4295032878 (BD) vendor-specific 75 75 25 (BE) vendor-specific 77 44 4682088471 (C2) HDA temperature 23 56 64424509463 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 20 11957647 (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 30674656459202 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3297726395 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2068630260	58.7% Above average	Read 101 Write 103 Mixed 77.5 70% 94 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.64 128% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2900 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	MC Read 32.2 MC Write 36.4 MC Mixed 26.9 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 31.4 SC Mixed 23.7 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 71.7 56% 71.7 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 - $170

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	399x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	362x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	203x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	171x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	114x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	42x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	30x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	45x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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