Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 125% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 108% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	131% 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	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.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF (all builds)
Memory	27.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 21 '17 at 17:11
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 95.1 1-Core 146 2-Core 285 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 764 79% 635 Pts	64-Core 781 48% 781 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EB) ≥ 4GB; asus strix CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 181 Reflection 207 Parallax 184 148% 191 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 186 Splatting 131 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 301GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5272 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1362 (B1) Unknown 99 99 18 (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 59 31 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24716376013	105% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 403 Mixed 414 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 28.7 163% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 28 88% 192 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 131%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 176GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5271 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1360 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 62 52 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 44 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4016233696	118% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 415 Mixed 403 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 48 193% 68.2 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 118 139% 243 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Toshiba MD04ACA400 4TB-$140 10,635 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 6824 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1635 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 4936 (0A) Spinup retry count 132 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1297 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 9 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 99 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3397 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 223339020329 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 93 93 3118 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 206 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	105% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 184 Mixed 170 134% 178 MB/s	4K Read 4.33 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.3 256% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 104%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 79GB free Firmware: 2AR20003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 750 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 84 3457 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3722 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 19112 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 347 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2611 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 99 99 34795026 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 231 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 351994 (C2) HDA temperature 64 31 296353267748 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 9 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1574 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 17538 (F1) Unknown 91 88 13066863 (F2) Unknown 93 83 10410141 (FE) Unknown 252 252 0	34.3% Below average	Read 54.9 Write 64.6 Mixed 63.6 46% 61 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.17 53% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 34.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMR32GX4M4C3000C15 4x8GB 3,965 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	MC Read 34.6 MC Write 38 MC Mixed 29.4 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 21.1 SC Write 38.3 SC Mixed 29.1 84% 29.5 GB/s	Latency 56.8 70% 56.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 119%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	297x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	96x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	136x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	29x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	15x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

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