Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.4% 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	113% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	9.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 25 '18 at 00:36
Run Duration	157 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 92.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 735 73% 596 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 120 Parallax 101 94% 112 fps	MRender 93.9 Gravity 102 Splatting 101 81% 99 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$160 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 98GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10968 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1619 (B1) Unknown 97 97 55 (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 76 54 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 74 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41044275453	113% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 404 Mixed 416 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 44 4K Write 87.7 4K Mixed 48.4 175% 60.1 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 120 142% 247 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 43GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6681 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 852 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 76 55 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5432010314	114% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 408 Mixed 414 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 91.7 4K Mixed 50 182% 62.5 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 133 143% 241 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 133%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 4TB-$230 19,674 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 95687256 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3524 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 5242147 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7700 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1052 (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 78 60 454295574 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8360 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 73014444054 (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 -90907277781729 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14179690395 (F2) Unknown 100 253 78135061407	71.4% Very good	Read 104 Write 144 Mixed 134 96% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.4 4K Mixed 0.81 220% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 71.4% Great: 94%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 296GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 116000976 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6426 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25968980 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16599 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2558 (B7) Unknown 1 1 503 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098500 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 59 504627224 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 847 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 87 87 27509 (C2) HDA temperature 24 41 30064771096 (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 7352984023894 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17616301091 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19683745217	87% Excellent	Read 142 Write 160 Mixed 132 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 5.49 4K Mixed 0.72 213% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 108%

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 @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.1 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 24.2 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 94%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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 $242Bench 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	199x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $706

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