Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 44% Speed boat	Desktop 70% Battle cruiser	Workstation 35% Jet ski


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 average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 59.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	65.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	233% 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 (100%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

System	Gigabyte H170M-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170307
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 11:01
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	100%

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 i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	59.8% Above average	Memory 72.2 1-Core 67.8 2-Core 115 52% 85.1 Pts	4-Core 257 8-Core 373 39% 315 Pts	64-Core 249 15% 249 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% EVGA(3842 2983) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	65.3% Good	Lighting 82.1 Reflection 88.7 Parallax 83.4 67% 84.7 fps	MRender 81.8 Gravity 76.9 Splatting 71.1 62% 76.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 103GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	233% Outstanding	Read 2,375 Write 1,278 Mixed 1,244 359% 1,632 MB/s	4K Read 57.2 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 26 191% 72.7 MB/s	DQ Read 55.9 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 27.2 43% 79.2 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 233% Great: 254%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 610GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 86 111490097 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4621 (05) Reallocated sector count 86 86 611 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 13172171194 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22006 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1847 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2950 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590131232 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 67 53 588709921 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 38654705697 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 29 23 111490097 (C5) Current pending sector count 98 96 109 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 98 96 109 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 122397978028175 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3938748790 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4216742848	63.5% Good	Read 112 Write 109 Mixed 98 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.52 124% 1 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	64.5% Good	MC Read 22.2 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 20.9 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 9.7 SC Write 20 SC Mixed 17.7 45% 15.8 GB/s	Latency 96.5 42% 96.5 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 85%

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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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Typical GA-H170M-D3H-CF Builds (Compare 730 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170M-D3H-CF

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	169x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	168x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	74x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	75x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	55x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	15x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	27x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	22x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	16x

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Total price: $408

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