Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 92.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65.6% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161109
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '17 at 02:25
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^th 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 (100^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Memory 94.4 1-Core 136 2-Core 273 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 515 8-Core 538 70% 527 Pts	64-Core 540 33% 540 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Lighting 78.7 Reflection 77.4 Parallax 66.3 64% 74.1 fps	MRender 71.4 Gravity 71.7 Splatting 73.3 59% 72.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS11754D117-514 240GB 313 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 123GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1840 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1321 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 241 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 701 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 104 (E7) Temperature 100 100 33 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1 (EA) Unknown 0 0 34 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4511 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4705	65.6% Good	Read 468 Write 287 Mixed 337 81% 364 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 54.8 4K Mixed 22.8 91% 33.2 MB/s	DQ Read 19.8 DQ Write 47.1 DQ Mixed 14.4 16% 27.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 136494160 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5220 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4451341 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9535 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1134 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 83 605599629453 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 45 538640416 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14587 (C2) HDA temperature 32 55 55834574880 (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 110135846372071 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30905994734 (F2) Unknown 100 253 25575631404	84.8% Excellent	Read 152 Write 144 Mixed 145 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.18 80% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 24GB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 203055264 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1862 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 108096406 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 789 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 43 159452430368 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 197 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27467 (C2) HDA temperature 32 57 42949672992 (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 -41807211657086 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47118101080 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22172322653	47.2% Average	Read 85.6 Write 78.9 Mixed 76.3 60% 80.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 0.73 4K Mixed 0.14 49% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 96%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1.5TB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)	33.8% Below average	Read 92.5 Write 75.4 Mixed 33.4 79% 67.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.08 48% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 33.8% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	94% Outstanding	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 35.4 MC Mixed 30.8 96% 33.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 35 SC Mixed 28.6 80% 27.9 GB/s	Latency 58.7 68% 58.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 95%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 48%

Yacht

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - $113

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	478x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	193x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	234x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	117x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	73x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	50x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	57x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	49x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $466

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 $179	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