Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GamingG1

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (89th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 11 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 86.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	143% 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	243% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GamingG1 (all builds)
Memory	26.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.5 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 05 '17 at 06:20
Run Duration	435 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing way above expectations (89^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Memory 93.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 250 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 618 65% 522 Pts	64-Core 655 40% 655 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 3002 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.12 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	143% Outstanding	Lighting 211 Reflection 207 Parallax 214 172% 211 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 184 Splatting 125 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 221GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5296 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 982 (B1) Unknown 98 98 30 (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 62 46 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 252 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19291331701	118% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 50 190% 67 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 112 141% 252 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 161GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	243% Outstanding	Read 1,976 Write 1,239 Mixed 1,163 322% 1,459 MB/s	4K Read 55.7 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 53.7 226% 82.3 MB/s	DQ Read 516 DQ Write 393 DQ Mixed 194 216% 368 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 243% Great: 236%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 3.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 177 6091 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1216 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5664 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 480 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6299 (C2) HDA temperature 116 103 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
Poor: 42% Great: 88%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 3.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 6 (03) Spinup time 181 180 5908 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1206 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5664 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 481 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 119 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6291 (C2) HDA temperature 117 96 33 (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
Poor: 42% Great: 88%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-00WN9B0 4TB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 3.5TB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	50.7% Above average	Read 119 Write 116 Mixed 97.9 141% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.59 4K Mixed 0.27 101% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 47%
WDC WD40 EFRX-68WT0N0 4TB 35 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 3.5TB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	Read 135 Write 130 Mixed 110 158% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.26 101% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 56%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-00WN9B0 4TB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 3.5TB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	48.8% Average	Read 120 Write 115 Mixed 116 150% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.29 82% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 48.8% Great: 47%
ST2000DL 003-9VT166 2TB 229 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 2TB free, PID 0400 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	52.2% Above average	Read 136 Write 132 Mixed 104 157% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.49 57% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 58%
SanDisk Cruzer Edge 64GB 774 User benchmarks, average bench 8% 58GB free, PID 556b Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	7.04% Terrible	Read 11.1 Write 4.32 Mixed 6.67 8% 7.36 MB/s	4K Read 3.57 4K Write 1.19 4K Mixed 0.92 85% 1.89 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.04% Great: 14%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 8,488 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2472 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 25.8 83% 29.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 23 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 89%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GamingG1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	117x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	18x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	14x

GPU
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	24x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	21x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	17x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	6x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	6x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	6x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	5x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GBG.SKILL $143Bench 95%, 14,506 samples	5x

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Value: 48% - Average

Total price: $940

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 $46

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