Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 83.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.4% 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	236% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170N-WIFI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF (all builds)
Memory	20.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '18 at 04:08
Run Duration	346 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing as expected (56^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	83.2% Excellent	Memory 82.2 1-Core 138 2-Core 264 88% 161 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 722 72% 588 Pts	64-Core 758 47% 758 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.4% Very good	Lighting 89.7 Reflection 94.8 Parallax 77 73% 87.2 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 107 Splatting 98.8 83% 102 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 87%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.87% Terrible	Lighting 8.4 Reflection 12 Parallax 8.34 7% 9.58 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 7.43 Splatting 16.4 10% 11.4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.87% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1CS2754D117-514 480GB 1,168 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 310GB free Firmware: CS211101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^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 3993 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 380 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 192 (B1) Unknown 0 0 84 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 5630 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 86 (E7) Temperature 100 100 40 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10 (EA) Unknown 0 0 55 (F1) Unknown 0 0 22025 (F2) Unknown 0 0 30857	97% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 409 Mixed 454 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 35 130% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 70.3 107% 202 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 106%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 297GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	236% Outstanding	Read 2,062 Write 1,259 Mixed 1,186 331% 1,502 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 53.1 197% 71.5 MB/s	DQ Read 406 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 157 173% 294 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 236% Great: 283%
PNY CS1311 120GB SSD 7 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 46GB free Firmware: CS13 Max speed: Unknown Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	58.7% Above average	Read 515 Write 252 Mixed 320 80% 363 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 38.9 4K Mixed 7.09 67% 23.5 MB/s	DQ Read 118 DQ Write 54.5 DQ Mixed 20.6 33% 64.5 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 75%
Toshiba X300 5TB-$125 12,743 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: FP2A 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 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 3713 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 250 (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 73 73 10916 (0A) Spinup retry count 105 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 240 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 128 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 191 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2726 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929479204 (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 77 77 9415 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 293 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	71.2% Very good	Read 146 Write 102 Mixed 133 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.29 113% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 109%
Seagate ST2000LM 003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 867 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 946GB free Firmware: 2BE1 Max speed: Unknown Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 19% Great: 71%
Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 50,772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 316GB free Firmware: 2BE10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 91 91 2996 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 404 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13454 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 420 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 50 223339413538 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 3857 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 175 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 254214 (F1) Unknown 98 94 3239752 (F2) Unknown 100 94 669112	40.4% Average	Read 63.9 Write 76.7 Mixed 66 52% 68.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.22 60% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.4% Great: 70%
Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB 9,902 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 7GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.3% Terrible	Read 22.9 Write 9.66 Mixed 11.9 17% 14.8 MB/s	4K Read 7.69 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.01 30% 2.57 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 7.3% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x16GB-$74 29,684 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 25.8 82% 28.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 32.3 SC Mixed 24.4 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 76.6 52% 76.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 94%

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Typical GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF Builds (Compare 476 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 46%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 37%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	113x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	59x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	44x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	34x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	10x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	23x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $349

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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