Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	137% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-Designare
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare-CF (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160529
Uptime	6.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 19 '17 at 02:30
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (50^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 (89^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 88.7 1-Core 142 2-Core 249 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 783 76% 622 Pts	64-Core 780 48% 780 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.3% 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: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 137 Reflection 155 Parallax 136 111% 143 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 143 Splatting 118 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 230GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2638 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 325 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12517531 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 55 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1577 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 16 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 72 309238497312 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 188980396076 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2155 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3186 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2907 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2491 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.2% Very good	Read 477 Write 283 Mixed 255 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 41 4K Mixed 16.3 81% 27.5 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 38.1 90% 192 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 107%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 137GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Read 1,138 Write 777 Mixed 1,034 219% 983 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 23.1 128% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 32.6 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 59.3 74% 123 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 243%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 181 3883 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 289 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2299 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 281 (C2) HDA temperature 111 108 36 (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	111% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 186 Mixed 181 142% 189 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 3.11 4K Mixed 0.34 131% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 8,488 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	43.1% Average	MC Read 14.6 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 12.9 40% 14.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 15.7 SC Mixed 14.1 41% 14.4 GB/s	Latency 68.8 58% 68.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 89%

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Gaming 70%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 60%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	69x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	18x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	22x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	17x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	8x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	6x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	5x
840 Pro 256GBSamsung $190Bench 95%, 73,119 samples	3x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GBUnknownBench 82%, 74,390 samples	6x
TMA851U6AFR6N-UHSC Kingston 9905678-014.A00G Kingston 9905678-014.A00G Kingston 9905678-014.A00G 16GBUnknownBench 79%, 10 samples	5x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	4x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $470

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $40	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