Gigabyte GA-Z170-D3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	127% 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	97% 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 Z170-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-D3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	25.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '18 at 08:05
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 as expected (41^st percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 78.6 1-Core 112 2-Core 210 75% 134 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 541 56% 448 Pts	64-Core 583 36% 583 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2862 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	127% Outstanding	Lighting 171 Reflection 203 Parallax 205 140% 193 fps	MRender 132 Gravity 186 Splatting 131 121% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7PD256HCGM-000H7 256GB 5,922 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06H6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22591 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1215 (AA) Unknown 100 100 4576 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 87 87 455 (AE) Unknown 99 99 341 (B7) Unknown 99 99 743 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 49 35 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0	97% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 356 Mixed 425 96% 430 MB/s	4K Read 34.5 4K Write 91.5 4K Mixed 28.9 138% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 86.7 126% 236 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 108%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 79GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 100 74 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 515 (A6) Unknown 100 100 18 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 80 (A9) Unknown 100 100 32 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 55 (AE) Unknown 100 100 125 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 100 261993005100 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 13261 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1318 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4211	78.8% Very good	Read 483 Write 359 Mixed 410 93% 417 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 93.6 4K Mixed 4.17 98% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 26.9 82% 175 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 86%
P3-240 240GB 93 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 27GB free Firmware: O1217A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^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 100 100 278 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 527 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 202 (A3) Unknown 100 100 18 (A4) Unknown 100 100 24373 (A5) Unknown 100 100 23 (A6) Unknown 100 100 6 (A7) Unknown 100 100 12 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 70 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 40 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 78462 (F2) Unknown 100 100 232871 (F5) Unknown 100 100 97492	106% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 446 Mixed 471 106% 476 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 91 4K Mixed 41 145% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 291 DQ Mixed 87.6 127% 237 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 94%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 42GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10074 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 365 (B1) Unknown 98 98 22 (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 63 51 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6916963939	80.3% Excellent	Read 369 Write 337 Mixed 298 75% 335 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 65.2 4K Mixed 21.8 126% 43.1 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 77.1 DQ Mixed 62.9 77% 141 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 614GB free Firmware: CC34 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 238894889 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 312 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 310 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 51720646 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21468 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 313 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8590065673 (BD) vendor-specific 77 77 23 (BE) vendor-specific 66 42 425840934946 (C2) HDA temperature 34 58 55834574882 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 10 238894889 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 101288213754600 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3270094805 (F2) Unknown 100 253 166759308	65.8% Good	Read 116 Write 113 Mixed 97.5 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.6 126% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 68%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 501GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 130 111 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 21147 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 32888 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 86 86 14299 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 634 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 155 155 136748 (C2) HDA temperature 112 84 35 (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	46.7% Average	Read 79.7 Write 82.9 Mixed 78.4 60% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.27 87% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 46.7% Great: 57%
Seagate Desktop 2TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 898GB free, PID 3300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	16.2% Very poor	Read 40 Write 39.4 Mixed 5.89 33% 28.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 0.53 4K Mixed 0.19 27% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 16.2% Great: 23%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB 19,779 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.2% Below average	MC Read 13.3 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 11.8 37% 13 GB/s	SC Read 9.5 SC Write 13.1 SC Mixed 10.6 32% 11.1 GB/s	Latency 83.3 48% 83.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 96%

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Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 43%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-D3H-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	172x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	126x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	102x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	67x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	59x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	43x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	26x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	16x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	25x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	22x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	16x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $521

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $37
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