Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 79.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	118% 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	248% 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.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160301
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 29 '17 at 00:32
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	32%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	Memory 80.8 1-Core 106 2-Core 223 76% 137 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 440 60% 448 Pts	64-Core 440 27% 440 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing below potential (24^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	118% Outstanding	Lighting 155 Reflection 206 Parallax 206 126% 189 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 184 Splatting 118 115% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 297GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	248% Outstanding	Read 2,337 Write 1,373 Mixed 1,333 371% 1,681 MB/s	4K Read 53.9 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 49.9 205% 72.1 MB/s	DQ Read 56.1 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 28.5 67% 131 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 248% Great: 254%
AVSSDS3E100Z-240GB 240GB 147 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 56GB free Firmware: SBFD00.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4955 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 43 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 96 96 142 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65539 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 67 67 141736083489 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 540	91.9% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 428 Mixed 462 103% 462 MB/s	4K Read 34.9 4K Write 92.3 4K Mixed 10.4 115% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 320 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 9.79 90% 211 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 87%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 710GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 197 197 9488 (03) Spinup time 253 165 1883 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1243 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 35 35 48143 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 897 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 95 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 25 25 525019 (C2) HDA temperature 109 81 41 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 198 197 943 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 185 120	50.9% Above average	Read 89.8 Write 87.3 Mixed 76.6 64% 84.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 2x8GB 4,421 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	68.3% Good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 21.8 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 17.2 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 79.1 51% 79.1 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 80%

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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%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	308x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	380x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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