Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 48% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	30.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 09:15
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	31%

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PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	Memory 80.4 1-Core 102 2-Core 203 73% 128 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 391 51% 386 Pts	64-Core 375 23% 375 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3716) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Lighting 80.7 Reflection 78.8 Parallax 66.3 66% 75.3 fps	MRender 71.1 Gravity 73.5 Splatting 75.2 60% 73.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk S064G 63GB 2,842 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 32GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.1.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4977 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3530 (A5) Unknown 100 100 341021 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 87 (AE) Unknown 100 100 218 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 52 48 270584119344 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 290 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 371 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6217940364 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12639083446	30.7% Below average	Read 305 Write 140 Mixed 216 49% 221 MB/s	4K Read 13.5 4K Write 10.4 4K Mixed 5.1 32% 9.67 MB/s	DQ Read 14.1 DQ Write 10.8 DQ Mixed 5.34 6% 10.1 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 30.7% Great: 47%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 41240992 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 606 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 63261048 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2291 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 598 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 67 58 555483169 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7879 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 64424509473 (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 -127770982086780 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24676121083 (F2) Unknown 100 253 236756912929	98.1% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 173 Mixed 161 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.23 89% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3500620AS 500GB-$145 5,462 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 454GB free Firmware: HP26 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 92 68706312 (03) Spinup time 95 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10475 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 39 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 314525165164 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 29453 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 40 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4533 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2116 (BC) Unknown 100 97 13 (BD) vendor-specific 12 12 88 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 555548705 (C2) HDA temperature 33 50 42949672993 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 14 68706312 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 39 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 49 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	48.3% Average	Read 93 Write 75.5 Mixed 79.2 62% 82.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.31 68% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB-$41 16,658 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	40.8% Average	MC Read 14.4 MC Write 14.7 MC Mixed 12.5 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 10.7 SC Write 13.2 SC Mixed 12.8 35% 12.2 GB/s	Latency 79.8 50% 79.8 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 40.8% Great: 79%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	305x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	248x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	190x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	153x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	31x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	49x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	32x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $323

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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