Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 95.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160301
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '17 at 13:54
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 150 2-Core 273 97% 173 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 817 81% 660 Pts	64-Core 812 50% 812 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4991) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1592 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 118 Parallax 117 91% 116 fps	MRender 98.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 92.5 79% 97.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 12GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13769 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 102 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 41 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2897673317	116% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 417 Mixed 423 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 98.4 4K Mixed 48.2 184% 64.2 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 110 138% 247 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 122%
OCZ Trion 100 120GB-$60 4,424 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 10GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 14344 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 165 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 187 187 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 121 (C2) HDA temperature 68 59 176094707744	60.3% Good	Read 485 Write 182 Mixed 164 60% 277 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 52.1 4K Mixed 6.81 73% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 6.33 58% 141 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204096680 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1318 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 54 53 279188736328 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17520 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 274 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 92 115966083111 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 61 504430619 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 22 22 156277 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 60129542171 (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 71335111831207 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13332411425 (F2) Unknown 100 253 443578408797	92.9% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 150 Mixed 156 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.18 64% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 894GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 120 104 7000 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 23016 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 26 26 54234 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1017 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 660 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 301723 (C2) HDA temperature 118 86 29 (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	60.5% Good	Read 107 Write 104 Mixed 98.4 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.38 95% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2800 C15 1x16GB 417 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	56.2% Above average	MC Read 20 MC Write 19.1 MC Mixed 15.7 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 18.2 SC Mixed 19.2 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 48.6 82% 48.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 54%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	306x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	379x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

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