Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	79.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	18.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 03 '17 at 02:53
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 91.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 250 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 662 71% 568 Pts	64-Core 692 43% 692 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan X-$615 15,621 User benchmarks, average bench 75% EVGA(3842 2992) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	Lighting 103 Reflection 113 Parallax 103 84% 107 fps	MRender 87.7 Gravity 95.1 Splatting 81.6 72% 88.1 fps
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 83%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 859GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q 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 3597 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 614 (B1) Unknown 99 99 34 (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 76 61 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 59500245476	79.6% Very good	Read 505 Write 479 Mixed 510 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 22.6 4K Write 55.3 4K Mixed 22.9 93% 33.6 MB/s	DQ Read 26.8 DQ Write 59.5 DQ Mixed 16.6 20% 34.3 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 797GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q 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 3702 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 654 (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 77 59 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 40 (EB) Unknown 99 99 157 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3237792048	74.9% Very good	Read 485 Write 94.8 Mixed 356 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 73.3 4K Mixed 25.7 124% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 97.8 125% 225 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 126%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 143322688 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1324 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2617627 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3319 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 612 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 60 420675609 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2075 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 55834574873 (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 -88587995445558 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5255960470 (F2) Unknown 100 253 792090696128	70.3% Very good	Read 182 Write 61.2 Mixed 87.8 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 5.42 4K Mixed 0.75 212% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 904GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 176195408 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 933 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 55645688 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4260 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 737 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 61 403832856 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 359 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23096 (C2) HDA temperature 24 40 55834574872 (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 116672786600233 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25128512228 (F2) Unknown 100 253 30782119995	68.2% Good	Read 117 Write 120 Mixed 97.7 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 5.46 4K Mixed 0.8 216% 2.3 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 94%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C16 2x8GB 102 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	76% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.6 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 24.3 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 101%

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Desktop 91%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	188x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	73x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	43x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $41Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	12x

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Value: 118% - Outstanding

Total price: $450

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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