Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming GT

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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	91.5% 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	292% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming GT (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161214
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 08 '17 at 16:00
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 132 2-Core 254 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 717 73% 589 Pts	64-Core 734 45% 734 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 119 Parallax 110 96% 116 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 108 Splatting 94 82% 101 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 875GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5230 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5522 (B1) Unknown 99 1 25 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 161 (EB) Unknown 99 99 52 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22724158634	93.6% Outstanding	Read 379 Write 403 Mixed 392 88% 391 MB/s	4K Read 33.6 4K Write 82.8 4K Mixed 35.9 141% 50.8 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 170 147% 219 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 124%
Mushkin MKNSSDCR240GB-DX 500GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 134% 393GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1416 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 168 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 65 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 173793934	136% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 497 Mixed 508 112% 500 MB/s	4K Read 48.9 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 64.2 224% 80.1 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 146 169% 289 MB/s
Poor: 132% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 136%
Intel 730 Series 480GB-$230 5,159 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 271GB free Firmware: L2010420 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 97 97 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9084 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 847 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 163 (AF) Unknown 100 100 30074667627 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 78 369688598 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 163 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 22 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 50391 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 43 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 151 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 50391 (F2) Unknown 100 100 47015	115% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 470 Mixed 453 107% 481 MB/s	4K Read 36.2 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 39.6 167% 64 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 141 157% 265 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 238GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	292% Outstanding	Read 2,621 Write 1,382 Mixed 1,380 394% 1,794 MB/s	4K Read 62.6 4K Write 164 4K Mixed 61.4 260% 96 MB/s	DQ Read 651 DQ Write 424 DQ Mixed 229 254% 435 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 292% Great: 254%
Seagate FA GoFlex Desk 1.5TB 770 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 707GB free, PID 5071 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	18.2% Very poor	Read 41.3 Write 41.1 Mixed 26.7 46% 36.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.26 45% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 2,787 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	MC Read 35.2 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 31 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 40.6 SC Mixed 30.2 84% 29.3 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 103%

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Desktop 86%

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Workstation 71%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming GT

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	102x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	11x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	8x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	16x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	16x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	10x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	10x
GIGABYTE GP-ASM2 512GBNvmeBench 198%, 167 samples	6x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $41Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	5x
CL16-16-16 D4-2400 2x16GBUnknownBench 72%, 338 samples	5x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	4x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $730

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 $179	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