Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 77.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% 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	86.7% 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	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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	24.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151216
Uptime	16 Days
Run Date	May 26 '17 at 00:57
Run Duration	179 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	77.8% Very good	Memory 84.5 1-Core 115 2-Core 210 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 383 8-Core 642 62% 513 Pts	64-Core 647 40% 647 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 145 Parallax 141 116% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 138 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
BP5 240GB 514 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 79GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8852 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 77 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 323 (AD) Unknown 100 100 852005 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 35 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10956	86.7% Excellent	Read 516 Write 489 Mixed 503 112% 503 MB/s	4K Read 4.78 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 14.7 76% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 68.7 117% 227 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 97%
Mushkin ECO3 480GB-$155 2,300 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 28GB free Firmware: O1126A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^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 100 100 734 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 141 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 5173 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 64504 (F2) Unknown 100 100 141310 (F5) Unknown 100 100 41384	81.2% Excellent	Read 482 Write 254 Mixed 265 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 35.3 4K Write 56.2 4K Mixed 28.2 119% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 306 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 49 86% 173 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 101%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 197 197 9116 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 6 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3001 (C2) HDA temperature 110 109 42 (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	83.7% Excellent	Read 145 Write 146 Mixed 136 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.57 4K Mixed 0.31 120% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 97%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 181434959 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1597 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 111 (07) Seek error rate 90 60 1025177271 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 30358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 499 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 574 (BE) vendor-specific 55 42 23558668943405 (C2) HDA temperature 45 58 73014444077 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 24 181434959 (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 -139333034021968 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3910424957 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1938011805	59.2% Above average	Read 95 Write 111 Mixed 97.1 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.52 118% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 59.2% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$154 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.1% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23.7 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 27.3 SC Mixed 22.1 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 72.7 55% 72.7 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 113%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,213x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $706

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