Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	86.1% 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151020
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '16 at 21:24
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Memory 94.8 1-Core 140 2-Core 281 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 550 8-Core 543 73% 547 Pts	64-Core 536 33% 536 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6175 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71% Very good	Lighting 91.4 Reflection 90.4 Parallax 80.2 74% 87.3 fps	MRender 86.8 Gravity 80.8 Splatting 71.6 64% 79.7 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1623 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 637 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5400296626	86.1% Excellent	Read 480 Write 339 Mixed 334 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 40.1 4K Write 64.2 4K Mixed 18.9 119% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 296 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 17.6 80% 182 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 779GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 69 63 9681752 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 11 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 404617 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 11 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 73 454361115 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 27 17 73014444059 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 9681752 (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 -52737903427572 (F1) Unknown 100 253 470692558 (F2) Unknown 100 253 47657639	96.6% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 163 Mixed 141 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.25 86% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 112%
Seagate ST3400833AS 400GB 466 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 371GB free Firmware: 3.AAE Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 92 108557807 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5769 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 465383323 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12251 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 98 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4573 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 54 471400476 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 51539607580 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 57 51 123667288 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	36.1% Below average	Read 64.8 Write 61 Mixed 59.4 46% 61.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.14 4K Mixed 0.37 88% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 37%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 331GB free Firmware: 1AA01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 99 178 (03) Spinup time 69 69 10100 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3426 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 6 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7010 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2897 (0D) Soft read error rate 99 99 178 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 179 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 63 370343958 (C2) HDA temperature 81 61 420610067 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 117666 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.2% Average	Read 90 Write 74.4 Mixed 87.5 63% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.37 96% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 62%
WD WD3200KS-00PFB0 320GB 3,103 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 297GB free Firmware: 21.00M21 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 182 5641 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9087 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14650 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4260 (BE) vendor-specific 68 46 32 (C2) HDA temperature 118 96 32 (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	34.4% Below average	Read 58.8 Write 60.4 Mixed 53.7 43% 57.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.45 112% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.9% Good	MC Read 18.5 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 20.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 24.1 SC Mixed 18.8 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 97%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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	305x

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 $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