Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6

Performance Results


Gaming 52% Yacht	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	60.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.9% 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.

Very high background CPU (88%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 6 (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170106
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 09 '17 at 00:36
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	88%

PC Performing as expected (56^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	77.7% Very good	Memory 76.7 1-Core 114 2-Core 239 78% 143 Pts	4-Core 438 8-Core 538 63% 488 Pts	64-Core 537 33% 537 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.5.1 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	60.5% Good	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 55.5 Parallax 99.2 62% 76.8 fps	MRender 58.3 Gravity 78.8 Splatting 74.8 58% 70.6 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 782 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 87 (AD) Unknown 100 100 917542 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 117 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2721	69.9% Good	Read 512 Write 263 Mixed 283 78% 353 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 59.1 4K Mixed 8.93 85% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 259 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 39.9 75% 152 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 91%
Seagate ST3320418AS 320GB-$54 24,309 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 150GB free Firmware: HP35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 209647010 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 7134 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 319724041 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17118 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3021 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1375056920 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295032849 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 51 404095000 (C2) HDA temperature 24 49 68719476760 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 37 209647010 (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 200 200 0	50.3% Above average	Read 87.6 Write 87.4 Mixed 73.8 62% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.58 124% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 60GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220073818 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6627 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 91997820 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9482 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1293 (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 53 404095000 (C2) HDA temperature 24 47 73014444056 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 23 220073818 (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 -135175505693900 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3723757927 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3655757459	51.5% Above average	Read 70.9 Write 109 Mixed 72.8 63% 84.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.49 109% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 70%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 39GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 172 2366 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3759 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8701 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1879 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 459 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3312 (C2) HDA temperature 120 103 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61% Good	Read 107 Write 105 Mixed 114 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.3 105% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB 4,782 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 26.5 83% 29.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 23 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 86.9 46% 86.9 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 96%

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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 $219Bench 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 $75Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	15x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $41Bench 68%, 16,658 samples	12x

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Total price: $474

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $288	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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