Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
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	72.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

System	Gigabyte Z170-Gaming K3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3-CF (all builds)
Memory	5.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 19:17
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	95.6% Outstanding	Memory 93.2 1-Core 141 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 775 81% 652 Pts	64-Core 775 48% 775 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$265 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 152 Parallax 127 113% 139 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 111 98% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 200GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1027 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 317 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2693003346765 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 16 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 164 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 44 240518168621 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1206899376409 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3482 (EA) Unknown 100 100 7903 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5907 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4563 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.5% Very good	Read 500 Write 360 Mixed 289 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 5.17 100% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 26.8 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 0.05 19% 42.9 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 86%
Seagate ST2000VM003-1CT164 2TB 16,094 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1.5TB free Firmware: SC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 83854384 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5623 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 100999591 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6880 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 558 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 610 (BE) vendor-specific 61 50 656670759 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 256 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5629 (C2) HDA temperature 39 50 47244640295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	95.9% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 166 Mixed 140 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.2 80% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 931GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54657505 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3238 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 53 38710023123 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9099 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2213 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 38 5176075550758 (C2) HDA temperature 38 62 60129542182 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 24 54657505 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 109955457760847 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2578871796 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2329761787	62% Good	Read 111 Write 105 Mixed 95.6 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.59 126% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 68%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$16 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 465GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 155460870 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 66623897 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2316 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 48 589299747 (C2) HDA temperature 35 52 42949672995 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 32 155460870 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	56.2% Above average	Read 95.9 Write 99.9 Mixed 79.8 69% 91.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.52 112% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 60%
Verbatim MICRO PLUS 8GB 65 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 4GB free, PID 0244 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	7.4% Terrible	Read 26 Write 8.68 Mixed 17.1 20% 17.3 MB/s	4K Read 7.29 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.005 27% 2.43 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.4% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x4GB 16,490 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	47% Average	MC Read 16.8 MC Write 16.2 MC Mixed 12.8 44% 15.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 18 SC Mixed 15.3 46% 16.2 GB/s	Latency 61.6 65% 61.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 98%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	384x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	321x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	202x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	226x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	194x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	102x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	36x
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	29x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	96x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	45x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	34x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $40	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