Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 98.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	92% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	89.1% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Jun 22 '17 at 19:48
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 143 2-Core 279 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 537 8-Core 781 82% 659 Pts	64-Core 789 49% 789 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2122 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 124 Parallax 117 94% 119 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 106 Splatting 109 88% 107 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 347GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3467 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 102 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 67 62 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4632876880	89.1% Excellent	Read 488 Write 271 Mixed 274 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 72.4 4K Mixed 28 140% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 55 96% 192 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 89.1% Great: 123%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 54GB free Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2488689 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -74947179307764 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1956 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 60 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 40 51542229022 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 51542229022 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2488689 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2488689 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2488689 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2009 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1316 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1316 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1516	55.9% Above average	Read 291 Write 112 Mixed 159 41% 187 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 13.7 116% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 77.3 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 28.4 40% 73.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 73%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 31GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 41 100 41 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1182 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 23 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 52 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 100 223338299431 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 648 (F1) Unknown 253 253 541 (F2) Unknown 253 253 259	69.5% Good	Read 372 Write 347 Mixed 355 80% 358 MB/s	4K Read 27.7 4K Write 84.5 4K Mixed 4.26 92% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 194 DQ Write 177 DQ Mixed 23.8 62% 132 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 86%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 876GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 171 2083 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 817 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3437 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 94 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 62 589037601 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1697 (C2) HDA temperature 110 105 33 (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	102% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 173 Mixed 162 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.28 126% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 109%
WD Blue 250GB (2007)-$20 41,230 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 125GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 135 130 4208 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8930 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26436 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4469 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8930 (C2) HDA temperature 108 89 35 (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	44.8% Average	Read 79.1 Write 76.5 Mixed 76.5 58% 77.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.33 100% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 55%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 55GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 135 3975 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7653 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 23483 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4682 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 359 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7653 (C2) HDA temperature 109 91 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	45.7% Average	Read 79.9 Write 79.3 Mixed 78 60% 79.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.31 87% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 45.7% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GB 4,420 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3400 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 45.1 MC Mixed 36.1 114% 39.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 47.9 SC Mixed 33 93% 32.7 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 115%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,218x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

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 $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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