Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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.
Boot Drive	101% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 22 '17 at 03:38
Run Duration	274 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (54^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 way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Memory 92.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 480 8-Core 740 75% 610 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.53 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 70% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 175GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 644 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 292 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 477 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65542 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 117 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 513	65.6% Good	Read 494 Write 346 Mixed 351 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 42.8 4K Mixed 9.8 69% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 179 DQ Write 41.1 DQ Mixed 40.2 48% 86.8 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 97%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 102GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4070 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2592 (B1) Unknown 98 98 38 (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 65 46 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 180 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22324380380	101% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 406 Mixed 420 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 97.2 4K Mixed 44.4 174% 61.6 MB/s	DQ Read 37.4 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 24 32% 54.9 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 72912632 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1283 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11225048 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1785 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1313 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 77310590994 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 60 622592031 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5707 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 64424509471 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 168 29878 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -7997229103689 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10384861957 (F2) Unknown 100 253 131038192735	112% Outstanding	Read 204 Write 188 Mixed 176 142% 189 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.24 87% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 113%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 649GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 172 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5648 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6296 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3871 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 378 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5269 (C2) HDA temperature 112 99 31 (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 78 40724 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	77% Very good	Read 136 Write 132 Mixed 113 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.24 90% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1TB-$580 15,105 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 279GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20064680 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8740 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 4658700437 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23625 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7612 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 74 74 26 (BC) Unknown 100 91 64425493393 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 67 43 22114271265 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 984 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12036 (C2) HDA temperature 33 57 -140737488355295 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 11 20064680 (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 -106463649318718 (F1) Unknown 100 253 605471854 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1435820100	53% Above average	Read 97.6 Write 87.2 Mixed 95.9 71% 93.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.47 88% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 53% Great: 75%
SanDisk Cruzer 32GB 3,296 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 26GB free, PID 5530 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	11.7% Very poor	Read 23.4 Write 9.56 Mixed 10.2 16% 14.4 MB/s	4K Read 4.22 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 1.29 117% 2.4 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 11.7% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 13,205 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.3% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 23.4 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 29.7 SC Mixed 24.9 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 103%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,218x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
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 $45Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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