Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	52.9% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	68.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, , 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '17 at 07:02
Run Duration	223 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing as expected (46^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 (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 91.6 1-Core 112 2-Core 269 86% 157 Pts	4-Core 535 8-Core 742 80% 639 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 295X2 (CrossFire Disabled) 2,533 User benchmarks, average bench 50% AMD(1002 0B2A) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1018 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	52.9% Above average	Lighting 64.9 Reflection 55.7 Parallax 81 53% 67.2 fps	MRender 57.5 Gravity 57 Splatting 74.6 53% 63 fps
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 2TB-$320 2,669 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 769GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 629 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 365 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 62 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5286064128	75.5% Very good	Read 505 Write 485 Mixed 506 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 22 4K Write 43.2 4K Mixed 18.2 80% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 26.4 DQ Write 48.6 DQ Mixed 17.1 19% 30.7 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 130%
Mushkin Chronos 480GB-$200 235 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 345GB free Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 2823762 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -132130373890332 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1823 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 128 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 32 53 64427982880 (C2) HDA temperature 32 53 64427982880 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2823762 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2823762 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2823762 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 21474836481 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10942 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6100 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6100 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7026	38.2% Below average	Read 364 Write 181 Mixed 177 53% 241 MB/s	4K Read 15.3 4K Write 11.2 4K Mixed 8.32 40% 11.6 MB/s	DQ Read 20.1 DQ Write 13.8 DQ Mixed 7.68 8% 13.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 59%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 207GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3932 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1899 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 62 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 64 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7424509645	81% Excellent	Read 499 Write 401 Mixed 417 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 33.8 4K Mixed 15.8 76% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 15.4 94% 218 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1597 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 911 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 66 50 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8413321163	68.3% Good	Read 497 Write 404 Mixed 418 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 32.4 4K Mixed 15.9 75% 24.3 MB/s	DQ Read 29.2 DQ Write 39.4 DQ Mixed 80.9 48% 49.8 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 122%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 2TB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 6299 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 66 43 10459 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5349 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6559 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3664 (B5) Unknown 100 100 16526098 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 255 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 141734707228 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 88 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5436	79% Very good	Read 131 Write 144 Mixed 127 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.67 4K Mixed 0.35 114% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 72%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 121441632 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1747 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 3117277 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1492 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 898 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 67 471072796 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7854 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 55834574876 (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 -67740224192235 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2295966815 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10400010240	109% Outstanding	Read 197 Write 182 Mixed 164 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.24 88% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 6,789 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.1% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.6 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 18 SC Write 30.5 SC Mixed 24.4 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 125%

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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	482x
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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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