Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 138% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 119% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 98.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	140% 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	108% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 02:12
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$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)	98.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 149 2-Core 301 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 536 8-Core 828 84% 682 Pts	64-Core 830 51% 830 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 198 Reflection 212 Parallax 183 161% 198 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 193 Splatting 137 126% 155 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue SATA M.2 1TB-$77 2,710 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 367GB free Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1855 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 242 (A5) Unknown 100 100 7471195 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 827 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 46 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 68 292059086882 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 111670067226 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1715 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1983 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1916 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1678 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.7% Very good	Read 503 Write 228 Mixed 275 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 77.6 4K Mixed 13.9 112% 42.1 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 203 DQ Mixed 12.4 78% 183 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 108%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4158 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1338 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 141 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15163573277	108% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 418 Mixed 420 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 27.2 163% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 27.2 102% 227 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 25GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4283 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1379 (A5) Unknown 100 100 30090330433 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 665 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 143 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 72 309239021599 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 390845759579 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2251 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3094 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2880 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3466 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	76.1% Very good	Read 501 Write 352 Mixed 325 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 77.6 4K Mixed 13.4 112% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 36.6 DQ Write 81.7 DQ Mixed 19.9 26% 46.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 104%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 25GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3553 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 797 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 74 62 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 92 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2076560982	122% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 415 Mixed 420 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 52.8 198% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 383 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 132 154% 268 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 134%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 24GB free Firmware: O1203AB Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th 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 100 100 312 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2009 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 15 (A3) Unknown 100 100 640 (94) Unknown 100 100 46261 (95) Unknown 100 100 709 (96) Unknown 100 100 511 (97) Unknown 100 100 651 (A4) Unknown 100 100 41491 (A5) Unknown 100 100 279 (A6) Unknown 100 100 27 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 192 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36413288349720 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 141953 (F2) Unknown 100 100 251316 (F5) Unknown 100 100 490112 (F6) Unknown 100 100 185044 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	69.9% Good	Read 494 Write 236 Mixed 268 73% 333 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 61.5 4K Mixed 24.9 112% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 63.5 DQ Mixed 14.5 20% 36.8 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 99GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 209023728 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3953 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4439813008 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12608 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2547 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 521076767 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 526 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27955 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 51539607583 (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 -554050770997 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39180501696 (F2) Unknown 100 253 104092184786	67.5% Good	Read 117 Write 118 Mixed 125 91% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.3 88% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 18,693 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	MC Read 37.7 MC Write 37.4 MC Mixed 27 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 38.2 SC Mixed 29.7 86% 30.1 GB/s	Latency 49.2 81% 49.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 102%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 - $167

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	640x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	297x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	121x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	92x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	40x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

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 $184	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) $35	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