Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 93%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	67.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	81.3% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170106
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '17 at 00:14
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 94 1-Core 141 2-Core 281 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 544 71% 536 Pts	64-Core 544 34% 544 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1105 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.4.3 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	67.3% Good	Lighting 86.1 Reflection 62 Parallax 113 70% 87.2 fps	MRender 61.3 Gravity 83.2 Splatting 78.8 62% 74.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 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 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 648 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 251 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 87 (AD) Unknown 100 100 852005 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2335	81.3% Excellent	Read 517 Write 329 Mixed 346 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 10.3 103% 39.1 MB/s	DQ Read 313 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 45 92% 189 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 91%
Seagate ST3320418AS 320GB-$54 24,309 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 226GB free Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 226194801 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7069 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 319463583 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16987 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2995 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1556123371 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032849 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 454557723 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 68719476763 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 37 226194801 (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	54.9% Above average	Read 95.5 Write 95.6 Mixed 93.1 71% 94.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.6 124% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 116GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160459310 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6562 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 87710909 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1267 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 53 437714970 (C2) HDA temperature 26 47 73014444058 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 23 160459310 (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 85645942862442 (F1) Unknown 100 253 557517025 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4263989011	54.9% Above average	Read 114 Write 76.8 Mixed 82.2 68% 91.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.39 92% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 54.9% Great: 70%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 39GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 172 2375 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3721 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8569 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1853 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 455 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3278 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 25 (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 0	63.2% Good	Read 115 Write 105 Mixed 108 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.29 102% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB 4,782 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	84% Excellent	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 31.9 MC Mixed 27.1 85% 29.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 32.8 SC Mixed 25.1 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 59.8 67% 59.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 96%

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Gaming 70%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 60%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	189x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	73x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	43x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $41Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	12x

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Value: 117% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16