Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 106% UFO	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	125% 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	79.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	6.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 27 '18 at 17:27
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 133 2-Core 249 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 726 71% 580 Pts	64-Core 723 45% 723 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% 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 6390) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (59^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 176 Reflection 182 Parallax 192 143% 183 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 174 Splatting 113 108% 135 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 100 1085 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1034 (A6) Unknown 100 100 855 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 906 (A9) Unknown 100 100 29 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 889 (AE) Unknown 100 100 37 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 257698037796 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 29 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 194503 (F1) Unknown 253 253 16550 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10845	79.5% Very good	Read 471 Write 359 Mixed 404 92% 411 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 4.41 106% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 4.05 65% 149 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 86%
WD Blue 250GB (2010)-$37 50,270 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 78GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 140 3833 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2298 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20993 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 490 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 71 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2231 (C2) HDA temperature 106 91 37 (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 1721 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 76 76 17904 (F1) Unknown 200 200 16859293242 (F2) Unknown 200 200 13704731674	54.6% Above average	Read 111 Write 79.8 Mixed 100 73% 96.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.22 69% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 17GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 86 60598578 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3928 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 12 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 752950531 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3817 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 5929 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 57 45 17953062955 (C2) HDA temperature 43 55 68719476779 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 67 60 235031877 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 25 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	27% Poor	Read 48 Write 45.9 Mixed 58.9 39% 50.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.32 76% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 27% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB 1,779 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 26 MC Mixed 21.3 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 27.7 SC Mixed 22.9 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 121%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,213x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	178x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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