Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

System	Gigabyte Z170X-UD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	3.6 Days
Run Date	May 27 '17 at 09:03
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.9 1-Core 146 2-Core 294 97% 178 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 806 82% 663 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1679 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.7% Good	Lighting 82.5 Reflection 81.3 Parallax 71.6 67% 78.5 fps	MRender 84.6 Gravity 74.5 Splatting 64.2 60% 74.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 435GB free Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2703 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 701 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6619207 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 4 (A9) Unknown 100 100 370 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 31 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 62 266288955422 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 85900263444 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 672 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1474 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1417 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1810 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.1% Very good	Read 483 Write 342 Mixed 336 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 26.1 4K Mixed 15.2 64% 20.6 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 42.1 96% 203 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 298GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4492 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1128 (A5) Unknown 100 100 635753661778 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 42 (A9) Unknown 100 100 540 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 15 (AE) Unknown 100 100 62 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 64 274878890015 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3680821445465 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 7251 (EA) Unknown 100 100 27889 (F1) Unknown 253 253 23087 (F2) Unknown 253 253 27434 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	65% Good	Read 479 Write 242 Mixed 264 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 25.2 4K Mixed 14.6 62% 19.8 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 41.1 95% 202 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 182054080 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 354 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26126808 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -57857504443795 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (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 72 68 471269404 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2783 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 77309411356 (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 -120460947750491 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16593395468 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10238258656	83.6% Excellent	Read 149 Write 143 Mixed 146 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.24 87% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 105%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 559GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 168 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1427 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4447 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1125 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1362 (C2) HDA temperature 114 106 29 (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	70.1% Very good	Read 136 Write 108 Mixed 130 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.19 75% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB 725 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 22.8 74% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 30 SC Mixed 23.8 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 107%

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	243x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	179x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	73x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	94x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	56x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	52x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	38x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	24x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	19x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	25x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	15x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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