Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	86.3% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6 (all builds)
Memory	26.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jul 25 '16 at 03:49
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 124 2-Core 238 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 624 67% 533 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 16.200.1035.1001 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 76.5 Reflection 64.3 Parallax 90.8 62% 77.2 fps	MRender 64.2 Gravity 64.3 Splatting 83.6 59% 70.7 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1SA754D117-479 480GB 164 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 331GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^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 100 100 731 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1307 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 32 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 140154 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 101 (E7) Temperature 100 100 31 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12 (EA) Unknown 0 0 37 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9652 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8176	86.3% Excellent	Read 505 Write 413 Mixed 459 102% 459 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 91.9 4K Mixed 21.8 118% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 29 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 21.7 52% 100 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 100%
Toshiba X300 4TB-$137 23,740 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 1TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7183 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 626 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1145 (0A) Spinup retry count 112 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 549 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 38 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 891 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 240519479322 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 989 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 199 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	61.7% Good	Read 104 Write 111 Mixed 104 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.18 65% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB 12,182 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.8% Very good	MC Read 23.9 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 22.5 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 22.1 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 99%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	189x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	73x
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	25x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	52x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	43x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	18x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $42Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	12x

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Value: 118% - Outstanding

Total price: $450

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16