Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


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 80.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	128% 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	211% 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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151013
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 21 '17 at 01:15
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

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 i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.7% Excellent	Memory 87.9 1-Core 101 2-Core 200 75% 130 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 428 57% 426 Pts	64-Core 428 26% 428 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 73%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1354 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	47.8% Average	Lighting 59.4 Reflection 63.3 Parallax 54.9 48% 59.2 fps	MRender 67.2 Gravity 54.6 Splatting 51.7 47% 57.8 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 54%
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 181 Reflection 197 Parallax 175 148% 184 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 172 Splatting 116 109% 134 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 118GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	211% Outstanding	Read 2,057 Write 1,132 Mixed 1,131 317% 1,440 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 27.3 153% 57.6 MB/s	DQ Read 400 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 150 159% 266 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 211% Great: 236%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 381GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 172 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 700 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 403 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1106 (C2) HDA temperature 110 102 33 (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	82.8% Excellent	Read 161 Write 127 Mixed 147 110% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.25 100% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 82.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB 4,782 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	77.1% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 25.3 78% 27.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 23.2 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 96%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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	437x
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) $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