Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 95.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% 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	81.2% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

System	Gigabyte Z170M-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H (all builds)
Memory	5.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 06:50
Run Duration	492 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.5% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 147 2-Core 293 98% 178 Pts	4-Core 553 8-Core 566 74% 559 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3754) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 147 Parallax 127 109% 136 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 139 Splatting 110 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 275GB-$42 16,792 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 74GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR021 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6447 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 304 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 95 95 79 (AE) Unknown 100 100 158 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 50 33 287763726386 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 95 95 5 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 16884547929 (F7) Unknown 100 100 529987578 (F8) Unknown 100 100 372119835 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1249 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	81.2% Excellent	Read 481 Write 330 Mixed 333 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 70.4 4K Mixed 23.9 109% 40.5 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 39.9 74% 149 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 95%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 202 178 6858 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1528 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6448 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 133 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 360262 (C2) HDA temperature 116 103 36 (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	59% Above average	Read 108 Write 97.3 Mixed 109 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.27 94% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 59% Great: 101%
Toshiba MK3263GSXN 320GB 883 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 166GB free Firmware: GC002M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1405 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7611 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 15 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 13742 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4922 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1824 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 201 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 367665 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236223660063 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 75 (DE) Loaded hours 82 82 7328 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 342 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	29.4% Poor	Read 47.3 Write 55 Mixed 47.3 38% 49.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.26 63% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 29.4% Great: 38%
WD Blue 2.5" 250GB (2009)-$30 16,754 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 47GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 141 135 1925 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7815 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8797 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 99 2 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032841 (BE) vendor-specific 67 41 622526497 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 781 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 214 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 977052 (C2) HDA temperature 110 84 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	29.3% Poor	Read 54.3 Write 47.4 Mixed 60.8 41% 54.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.26 81% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 29.3% Great: 41%
Seagate ST3120215AS 120GB 179 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 8GB free Firmware: 3.CHF Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8842 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 82423957 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 21989 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4764 (B8) Unknown 100 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 47 707002407 (C2) HDA temperature 39 53 77309411367 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 92 79 17843340 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0
Poor: 18% Great: 38%
USB 3.0 Device 60GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 19% 6GB free Firmware: 0501 Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	16.7% Very poor	Read 29.6 Write 28.3 Mixed 28.9 22% 28.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 0.67 4K Mixed 0.3 64% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 16.7% Great: 21%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 64GB 8,040 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 5GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	11.4% Very poor	Read 23 Write 7.41 Mixed 1 10% 10.5 MB/s	4K Read 4.61 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 1.38 124% 2.58 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 11.4% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	76.3% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 23.4 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 27.7 SC Mixed 23 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 88%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 51%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170M-D3H - $138

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	190x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	170x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	112x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	85x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	74x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	59x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	39x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	33x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	21x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	17x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $583

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 $182	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) $30	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