Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.9% 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	102% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	10 Days
Run Date	Jul 17 '17 at 19:30
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 (98^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 91.3 1-Core 140 2-Core 278 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 489 8-Core 755 77% 622 Pts	64-Core 768 48% 768 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91% 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 8599) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2127 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 120 Parallax 101 94% 112 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 275GB-$100 67,541 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 175GB free Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 301 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 65 150324772896 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 1 (F6) Unknown 100 100 219634396 (F7) Unknown 100 100 6872773 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1226428 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1249 (D2) Unknown 100 100 16	71.2% Very good	Read 482 Write 302 Mixed 322 82% 369 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 78.5 4K Mixed 12.8 98% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 28.9 49% 89.6 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 95%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 143GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3598753 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12060268167252 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 38 17182359583 (C2) HDA temperature 31 38 17182359583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3598753 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3598753 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3598753 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4294963428 (EA) Unknown 0 0 31 (F1) Unknown 0 0 31 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13 (F4) Unknown 100 100 3866650	67.3% Good	Read 476 Write 209 Mixed 267 70% 317 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 13.3 113% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32.1 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 53.3 47% 67 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4820 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1251 (B1) Unknown 98 98 23 (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 64 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 161 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21586462348	102% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 398 Mixed 411 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 43.5 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 27.8 152% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 27.6 91% 199 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 85GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12383 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3004 (B1) Unknown 92 92 87 (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 70 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 472 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10208613025
Poor: 63% Great: 108%

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 @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.4% Average	MC Read 13.6 MC Write 13.9 MC Mixed 11.4 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 15.1 SC Mixed 13.7 39% 13.7 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 - $170

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	399x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	362x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	203x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	171x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	114x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	42x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	30x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	45x

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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 $184	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) $35	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