Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


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 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 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	96.1% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 27 '17 at 03:22
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 137 2-Core 274 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 549 8-Core 549 73% 549 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.6% Good	Lighting 80.5 Reflection 80.7 Parallax 69.3 66% 76.8 fps	MRender 73.2 Gravity 74 Splatting 72.3 60% 73.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS11754D117-514 240GB 313 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 106GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS111101 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 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1933 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1592 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 243 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 42 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 738 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 104 (E7) Temperature 100 100 42 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1 (EA) Unknown 0 0 40 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5365 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5654	96.1% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 296 Mixed 370 87% 395 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 34.2 149% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 64.3 107% 206 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 570GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35063952 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6139 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7394044 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10386 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1404 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 83 605599629453 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 45 639959078 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18041 (C2) HDA temperature 38 55 55834574886 (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 117128053130186 (F1) Unknown 100 253 36706627878 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28421990076	56.8% Above average	Read 96.1 Write 102 Mixed 98.2 74% 98.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.15 74% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 23GB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 193564344 (03) Spinup time 94 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2831 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 110772756 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5059 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1059 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 60 43 159587500072 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 203 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31770 (C2) HDA temperature 40 57 42949673000 (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 -34157874902714 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47160039706 (F2) Unknown 100 253 23050422994	48.2% Average	Read 86.5 Write 81.5 Mixed 74.5 61% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.16 54% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 96%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1TB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	36.9% Below average	Read 117 Write 71.5 Mixed 66.4 100% 85 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.07 51% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 36.9% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	95.6% Outstanding	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 36.7 MC Mixed 30.3 97% 34.1 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 37.5 SC Mixed 27.6 82% 28.7 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 95%

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

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 48%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - $113

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	478x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	436x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	193x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	234x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	117x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	73x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	50x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	57x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	49x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $466

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