Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 85.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	110% 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	99.3% 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	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 (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160314
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 16 '19 at 02:01
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 117 2-Core 245 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 656 67% 542 Pts	64-Core 685 42% 685 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 5700XT 50th Anniversary 4,475 User benchmarks, average bench 98% AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB Ram: 8GB, Driver: 19.7.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	110% Outstanding	Lighting 138 Reflection 114 Parallax 230 113% 161 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 133 Splatting 158 113% 135 fps
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 103%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk S3512G 512GB 19,948 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 190GB free Firmware: X6104000 SusWrite @10s intervals: 409 397 402 386 392 404 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	98.1% Outstanding	Read 475 Write 230 Mixed 381 SusWrite 398 83% 371 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 37.5 125% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 335 DQ Mixed 289 235% 334 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 119%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 265 99 72 63 59 57 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	99.3% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 462 Mixed 357 SusWrite 102 79% 353 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 53.4 184% 64.4 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 237 212% 321 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 118%
Intel 660p NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$74 163,917 User benchmarks, average bench 191% 808GB free Firmware: 002C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1132 1335 1353 1369 1384 1271 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	251% Outstanding	Read 1,439 Write 1,531 Mixed 1072 SusWrite 1,307 301% 1,337 MB/s	4K Read 55.1 4K Write 146 4K Mixed 74.8 257% 92.1 MB/s	DQ Read 632 DQ Write 897 DQ Mixed 268 342% 599 MB/s
Poor: 127% ↑ This bench: 251% Great: 255%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$31 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	69.9% Good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 20.3 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 22.5 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 88%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	305x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	248x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	190x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	153x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	31x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	49x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	32x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $314

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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