Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 136% UFO	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 117% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 95.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	142% 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	105% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 18 '17 at 05:33
Run Duration	258 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 (100^th percentile)	95.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 143 2-Core 284 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 784 80% 648 Pts	64-Core 785 49% 785 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751); Aorus Xtreme Edition GTX 1080 Ti CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2958 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	142% Outstanding	Lighting 202 Reflection 210 Parallax 191 165% 201 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 198 Splatting 135 127% 157 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 142% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 477GB free Firmware: PSF109C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1,561 Write 531 Mixed 772 209% 955 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 151 4K Mixed 52.5 200% 79.4 MB/s	DQ Read 497 DQ Write 492 DQ Mixed 170 217% 387 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 144%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 18 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26369 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 262 (B1) Unknown 77 77 807 (B3) Unknown 99 99 18 (B5) Unknown 99 99 18 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 18 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 211 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48085182103	105% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 398 Mixed 470 103% 463 MB/s	4K Read 36.5 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 28.2 153% 60.2 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 81.3 131% 253 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%
OCZ AGILITY3 480GB 804 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 30GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 105628363 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 25486335973363 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 307 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 263 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 105628363 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 105628363 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 105628363 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11592 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11272 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11272 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19048	37.8% Below average	Read 256 Write 125 Mixed 137 38% 173 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 14 4K Mixed 9.85 56% 15.9 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 44.2 DQ Mixed 20.3 31% 60.6 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 41%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 10GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 30025 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 257 (B1) Unknown 97 97 26 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 235 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18001499852	100% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 352 Mixed 357 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 82.7 4K Mixed 29.8 152% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 99.6 130% 238 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 126%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 111GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 234 233 3258 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11543 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 23 23 56885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 805 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 480 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11062 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 125 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 1 0	80.1% Excellent	Read 152 Write 127 Mixed 125 101% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.58 4K Mixed 0.59 148% 1.34 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 80%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 58GB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 82 (03) Spinup time 161 161 34393162176 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 109 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6322 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 38 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 343 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 343 (C2) HDA temperature 142 142 214749937706 (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	43.6% Average	Read 69.9 Write 82 Mixed 75.1 57% 75.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.19 64% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 43.6% Great: 92%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 5GB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 81 (03) Spinup time 164 164 34389557736 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 72 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3137 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 25 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 188 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 188 (C2) HDA temperature 142 142 227634839594 (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 2	75% Very good	Read 134 Write 127 Mixed 128 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.2 104% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	MC Read 33.7 MC Write 37.5 MC Mixed 30.1 96% 33.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 40.9 SC Mixed 30.6 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 52.8 76% 52.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 104%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,220x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

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