Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 93%, 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	73.8% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 20 '18 at 19:31
Run Duration	259 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 140 2-Core 273 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 745 76% 615 Pts	64-Core 761 47% 761 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 184 Reflection 212 Parallax 182 150% 193 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 176 Splatting 135 120% 148 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 1TB-$65 6,111 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 746GB free Firmware: M0CR060 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd 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 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 43 32 292060004409 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 521886156 (F7) Unknown 100 100 16318633 (F8) Unknown 100 100 548255 (B4) Unknown 0 0 8718 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	86.4% Excellent	Read 477 Write 328 Mixed 338 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 76.7 4K Mixed 27.7 116% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 54 100% 202 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 104%
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 171GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU01.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st 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 1274 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 631 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 21 (A3) Unknown 100 100 345 (94) Unknown 100 100 180046 (95) Unknown 100 100 2669 (96) Unknown 100 100 2559 (97) Unknown 100 100 2647 (A4) Unknown 100 100 54626 (A5) Unknown 100 100 87 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 43 (A9) Unknown 100 100 96 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 46356323041313 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 247644 (F2) Unknown 100 100 235830 (F5) Unknown 100 100 322634 (F6) Unknown 100 100 360092 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	73.8% Very good	Read 487 Write 260 Mixed 271 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 51.3 4K Mixed 23.7 94% 32.9 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 167 DQ Mixed 25.3 72% 158 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 91%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20182960 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3125 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 63007208 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10740 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1345 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 64 42 58626909798436 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 74 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30516 (C2) HDA temperature 36 58 77309411364 (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 -121899761788618 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28868994380 (F2) Unknown 100 253 211840529943	87.3% Excellent	Read 131 Write 173 Mixed 135 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 5.33 4K Mixed 0.67 198% 2.2 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 108%
Lacie P9227 Slim 2TB 851 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1.5TB free Firmware: 1153 Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	Read 107 Write 70 Mixed 70.6 62% 82.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 3.37 4K Mixed 0.6 165% 1.62 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 817GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 100 242083416 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 28 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 842447 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 93 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 24 (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 63 61 622919717 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 814 (C2) HDA temperature 37 40 90194313253 (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 18103287152688 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2857678467 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22528298712	89.4% Excellent	Read 166 Write 146 Mixed 148 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 114%
WD Elements 500GB 10,869 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 170GB free, PID 1042 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	30.6% Below average	Read 65.4 Write 66.5 Mixed 57.4 81% 63.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 30.6% Great: 41%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	93.9% Outstanding	MC Read 34 MC Write 36.6 MC Mixed 28.6 94% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 37.4 SC Mixed 28.8 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 104%

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Gaming 62%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI - $129

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	599x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	572x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	159x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	261x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	154x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	146x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	108x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	58x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	43x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $485

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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