Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 75% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 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 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	6.45% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	66.7% 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.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '21 at 09:44
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^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-$113 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 120 2-Core 224 81% 143 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 408 54% 403 Pts	64-Core 427 26% 427 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 26.20.100.7262 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	6.45% Terrible	Lighting 7 Reflection 7 Parallax 8.2 6% 7.4 fps	MRender 9.8 Gravity 7.2 Splatting 11.3 8% 9.43 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.45% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$36 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 84 99 94 103 112 103 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	66.7% Good	Read 312 Write 146 Mixed 181 SusWrite 99.1 41% 184 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 34.9 138% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 152 DQ Mixed 108 89% 126 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 73%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 334GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 SusWrite @10s intervals: 116 116 120 120 121 121 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	68.2% Good	Read 119 Write 114 Mixed 70.5 SusWrite 119 78% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.6 116% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 69%
WD WD25 00JS-58NCB1 250GB 17,984 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 227GB free Firmware: 10.02E02 SusWrite @10s intervals: 54 56 57 57 58 57 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	33.2% Below average	Read 58.6 Write 58.6 Mixed 42 SusWrite 56.6 40% 53.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.9 160% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 35%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLE8G4D30AEEA.K16FE Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	78.7% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 26 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 79%

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

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 - $170

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	402x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	368x
Core i5-6500Intel $60Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	205x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	171x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	118x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	43x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	45x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $766

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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