Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 126% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	132% 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	80% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '18 at 02:16
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (62^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 144 2-Core 287 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 795 78% 641 Pts	64-Core 795 49% 795 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6694) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 200 Parallax 179 153% 189 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 183 Splatting 122 116% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 436GB free Firmware: B35900WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Read 1,504 Write 534 Mixed 624 193% 888 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 63.9 4K Mixed 13.5 97% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 36.3 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 47.1 76% 137 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 155%
WD Blue 3D SATA M.2 500GB-$95 27,087 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 362GB free Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1304 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4718642 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 55 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 439 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 8 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 50 214749610022 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 42950328330 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 503 (EA) Unknown 100 100 617 (F1) Unknown 253 253 598 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1937 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	90.2% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 347 Mixed 350 88% 397 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 85.7 4K Mixed 22.7 122% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 11.1 85% 202 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 116%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 62GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9668 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (AB) Unknown 100 100 1 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 19 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 56 188979216416 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 1 (F6) Unknown 100 100 9877234094 (F7) Unknown 100 100 308798298 (F8) Unknown 100 100 223221993 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1935 (D2) Unknown 100 100 4	79.6% Very good	Read 468 Write 320 Mixed 322 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 52.8 4K Mixed 25.6 95% 33.7 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 46.8 96% 198 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 79.6% Great: 99%
Crucial BX100 250GB-$141 42,930 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 1984 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 162 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 54 (A3) Unknown 100 100 37 (A4) Unknown 100 100 59567 (A5) Unknown 100 100 118 (A6) Unknown 100 100 17 (A7) Unknown 100 100 57 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 52 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 121898 (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 4 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 272981 (F2) Unknown 100 100 407073 (F5) Unknown 100 100 476536	80% Very good	Read 511 Write 364 Mixed 427 96% 434 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 21.4 116% 48.5 MB/s	DQ Read 25.9 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 20.6 30% 53.2 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 103%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 100 33127024 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 103317 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 92 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (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 71 66 571867165 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 81604378653 (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 -77859167141799 (F1) Unknown 100 253 588035063 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15740147	93.5% Outstanding	Read 136 Write 189 Mixed 143 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.51 178% 2.13 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$41 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	MC Read 40.9 MC Write 42.8 MC Mixed 34 112% 39.2 GB/s	SC Read 23.7 SC Write 45.8 SC Mixed 34.2 99% 34.6 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 109%

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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	2,212x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	294x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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