Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.7% 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	74.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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	25.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 05 '18 at 13:56
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.7 1-Core 142 2-Core 271 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 763 75% 611 Pts	64-Core 765 47% 765 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Lighting 116 Reflection 119 Parallax 101 94% 112 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2432 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 642 (A5) Unknown 100 100 68782523240 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 30 (A9) Unknown 100 100 207 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 17 (AE) Unknown 100 100 106 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 72 66 283468562460 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2409512960561 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4036 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8935 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7190 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6569 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.6% Very good	Read 501 Write 310 Mixed 184 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 70.7 4K Mixed 17 114% 41.4 MB/s	DQ Read 39.4 DQ Write 78.1 DQ Mixed 43.3 37% 53.6 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 66524696 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1428 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10224830 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2386 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 637 (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 58 370147350 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 25937 (C2) HDA temperature 22 42 38654705686 (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 -46759308950567 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8851536279 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48340344750	103% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 174 Mixed 170 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.24 87% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 222764704 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 304 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7614092 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 683 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 233 (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 76 55 403701784 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5361 (C2) HDA temperature 24 45 55834574872 (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 64738042053035 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11365821344 (F2) Unknown 100 253 35578715733	93.3% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 147 Mixed 164 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 114%
Seagate BUP Slim BL 1TB 4,375 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 724GB free Firmware: 0108 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	66.1% Good	Read 120 Write 110 Mixed 50.9 69% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 3.19 4K Mixed 0.44 140% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 64%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown CMU16GX4M2C3000C15 029E CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 029E CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 029E CMU16GX4M2C3000C15 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 3000, 3000, 3000, 3000 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	95.3% Outstanding	MC Read 32.3 MC Write 37.8 MC Mixed 29.7 95% 33.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 41.7 SC Mixed 31.4 89% 31.2 GB/s	Latency 54.8 73% 54.8 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 95%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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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 $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 $134	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