Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	225% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 10 '17 at 23:33
Run Duration	308 Seconds
Run User	ARG-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 131 2-Core 259 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 708 69% 566 Pts	64-Core 730 45% 730 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 154 Parallax 144 114% 146 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 137 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ VERTEX4 250GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 55GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2857 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 412 (B1) Unknown 98 98 40 (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 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 90 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23266671141
Poor: 79% Great: 112%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	225% Outstanding	Read 2,371 Write 1,191 Mixed 1,409 365% 1,657 MB/s	4K Read 54.5 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 23.1 184% 71.2 MB/s	DQ Read 52.9 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 23.6 42% 79.2 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 225% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 47GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8743 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1553 (E8) Unknown 100 100 18767971497 (E9) Unknown 96 0 96	61.6% Good	Read 305 Write 174 Mixed 218 51% 232 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 13.3 104% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 62 85% 157 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 62%
WD WD6400AAKS-75A7B0 2TB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 243GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 78134448 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3737 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 40 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 82866251 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9411 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1618 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 5 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 125076176927 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 177 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 48195 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 -140737488355297 (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 104900281243106 (F1) Unknown 100 253 54965960449 (F2) Unknown 100 253 80407822095	68.7% Good	Read 149 Write 90.2 Mixed 88.8 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 0.68 4K Mixed 0.2 63% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 220GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 5480 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1220 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2714883 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3257 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 717 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 60 505282590 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 42949672990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 27 5480 (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 -52471615451850 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4034680960 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2913201454	52.6% Above average	Read 93.6 Write 89.8 Mixed 70.6 63% 84.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.42 83% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 88%
Seagate ST2000DM001-9YN164 640GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 48GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 165 161 4733 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7009 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12292 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2759 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 671 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7003 (C2) HDA temperature 112 84 35 (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	58% Above average	Read 109 Write 93.2 Mixed 97 75% 99.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.33 89% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 58%
Samsung M3 Portable 500GB 4,300 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 73GB free, PID 61b3 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	28.9% Poor	Read 65.1 Write 66.3 Mixed 62.5 83% 64.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.33 68% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMK8GX4M1A2400C14 029E CMK16GX4M1B3000C15 029E CMK8GX4M1A2400C14 32GB 3000, 3000, 3000 MHz 8192, 16384, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	93.8% Outstanding	MC Read 33 MC Write 37.3 MC Mixed 29.7 95% 33.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 42.4 SC Mixed 28.8 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 64.7 62% 64.7 ns

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	305x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	379x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

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) $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