Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 130% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 112% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	134% 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	115% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 26 '17 at 22:24
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (59^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)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 144 2-Core 285 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 519 8-Core 789 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.8% 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 85E2) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2877 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 189 Reflection 205 Parallax 178 154% 190 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 182 Splatting 128 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8812 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 822 (B1) Unknown 96 96 84 (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 61 52 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 120 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31298376931	115% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 418 Mixed 424 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 41.3 183% 65.9 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 109 138% 247 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 37GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6253 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 508 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 182 182 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 64 (C2) HDA temperature 68 52 206159609888 (F1) Unknown 100 100 103259	65.1% Good	Read 374 Write 284 Mixed 271 69% 310 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 55.3 4K Mixed 9.98 85% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 230 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 39.4 72% 144 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 101%
Samsung SM841 2.5" 7mm 128GB 4,859 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 6GB free Firmware: DXM01D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 933 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 87 87 455 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4576 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26556390888 (F2) Unknown 99 99 18246284729	89% Excellent	Read 504 Write 224 Mixed 297 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 23.3 146% 57.8 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 63.5 108% 214 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 99%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 590GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 133 10791 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3632 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14259 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1250 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 190 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3441 (C2) HDA temperature 110 102 42 (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	66.6% Good	Read 112 Write 120 Mixed 118 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 3.11 4K Mixed 0.28 129% 1.45 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 112%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 357GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 140 10550 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 819 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8871 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 816 (10) Unknown 7 193 132144661395 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 676 (C2) HDA temperature 108 102 44 (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 200 200 0	72.5% Very good	Read 128 Write 125 Mixed 123 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 3.02 4K Mixed 0.28 128% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 11,954 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 37.7 MC Mixed 26.9 98% 34.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 39.4 SC Mixed 30.1 88% 30.7 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 107%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,213x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
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 $40Bench 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 $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