Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 DDR3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 10% Tree trunk	Desktop 70% Battleship	Workstation 9% Tree trunk


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	4.53% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	50.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 DDR3-CF (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150901
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 20:04
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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 i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 118 2-Core 213 78% 138 Pts	4-Core 374 8-Core 650 62% 512 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX 1,377 User benchmarks, average bench 6% Nvidia(10DE 039C) 768MB Ram: 768MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	4.53% Terrible	Lighting 6.37 Reflection 4.58 Parallax 2.91 5% 4.62 fps	MRender 3.19 Gravity 5.9 Splatting 3.09 3% 4.06 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 4.53% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 142GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1769 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 893 (A5) Unknown 100 100 279239132061 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 42 (A8) Unknown 100 100 42 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 79 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 49 210454446108 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4569913623592 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4969 (EA) Unknown 100 100 9617 (F1) Unknown 253 253 6056 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7417 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	50.2% Above average	Read 451 Write 213 Mixed 247 67% 304 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 27.5 4K Mixed 7.62 51% 17.5 MB/s	DQ Read 21.5 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 6.99 34% 70.4 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 101%
Toshiba X300 4TB-$146 23,740 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 3TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^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 7010 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 568 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 768 (0A) Spinup retry count 111 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 342 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 663 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 184684445717 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 583 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 215 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	87.1% Excellent	Read 154 Write 148 Mixed 149 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 4.39 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.23 245% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x4GB 424,126 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1600 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	60.5% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.7 MC Mixed 18.2 60% 21 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 76.9 52% 76.9 ns
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 65%

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Gaming 29%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 DDR3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	65x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	50x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	24x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	19x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	8x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	12x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	8x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	7x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $339

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