Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 82.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.1% 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.

High background CPU (25%). 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, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151020
Uptime	8 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 01:21
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	82.2% Excellent	Memory 86.7 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 449 60% 449 Pts	64-Core 451 28% 451 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.4.4 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	62.8% Good	Lighting 80.6 Reflection 55.4 Parallax 101 66% 79 fps	MRender 57.1 Gravity 77 Splatting 73.5 57% 69.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$42 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 141GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2200 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 669 (B1) Unknown 97 97 11 (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 50 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6387736257	74.1% Very good	Read 475 Write 264 Mixed 276 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 23.9 4K Write 42.7 4K Mixed 24.5 90% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 66.6 100% 192 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 769GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 63 54744810 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 632 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8336269 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 632 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 77 69 386859031 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 637 (C2) HDA temperature 23 12 51539607575 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 1 54744810 (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 16028817950825 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4735078328 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3281053892	97.3% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 166 Mixed 146 121% 162 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.32 108% 1 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F4-2400C15-4GVR 0420 F4-2133C15-4GVR 0420 F4-2400C15-4GVR 0420 F4-2133C15-4GVR 16GB 51 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	75.2% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.8 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 20.9 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 78%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	305x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	379x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

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 $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