Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	52.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	117% 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 08 '17 at 20:39
Run Duration	247 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 139 2-Core 266 94% 167 Pts	4-Core 462 8-Core 727 73% 595 Pts	64-Core 740 46% 740 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 1976) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1481 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	52.6% Above average	Lighting 65.6 Reflection 68.8 Parallax 61.7 54% 65.4 fps	MRender 71.7 Gravity 62.5 Splatting 55.2 51% 63.1 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3101 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 616 (B1) Unknown 98 98 75 (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 62 53 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15131124572	117% Outstanding	Read 529 Write 491 Mixed 501 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 40.7 172% 65.4 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 25.7 99% 220 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 124%
Intel SSDSCKJF180A5 SATA 180GB 214 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 114GB free Firmware: LWDi Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1607 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 296 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 265968 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3450 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 49 100 77314588721 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 100 180951486 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 15347 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 65 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15347 (F2) Unknown 100 100 28397 (F9) Unknown 100 100 924	84.7% Excellent	Read 519 Write 237 Mixed 313 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 18.7 132% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 236 DQ Mixed 53.6 96% 189 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 84%
Samsung MZ7TD128HAFV-000L1 128GB 4,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 11GB free Firmware: DXT04L0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6874 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2295 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 99 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3120 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 1 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E9) Unknown 199 199 2568968 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 1 5 (EC) Unknown 99 99 57 (ED) Unknown 99 99 99 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	56.8% Above average	Read 374 Write 131 Mixed 130 46% 212 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 72.4 4K Mixed 10.4 92% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 223 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 25.6 58% 123 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 71%
WD Purple 4TB (2014)-$73 8,426 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 177 8075 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1411 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9936 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 174 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1400 (C2) HDA temperature 119 113 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	80.9% Excellent	Read 132 Write 150 Mixed 135 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.27 102% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 100%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51794264 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 135 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2853709 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 135 (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 65 60 588644387 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2481 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 90194313251 (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 67645734912393 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3001235758 (F2) Unknown 100 253 45202119699	89.3% Excellent	Read 130 Write 180 Mixed 131 110% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 5.16 4K Mixed 0.63 196% 2.18 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 110%
WD Black 2.5" 500GB (2011)-$50 12,013 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 443GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 197 189 1150 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1437 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7195 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1435 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 1292 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35953 (C2) HDA temperature 118 93 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 94 94 4438 (F1) Unknown 200 200 6021521139 (F2) Unknown 200 200 7835715516 (FE) Unknown 199 199 1	62.8% Good	Read 108 Write 111 Mixed 95.2 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.31 108% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 65%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2013)-$62 57,200 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 335GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 191 187 1416 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2307 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9100 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2254 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 1189 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 49 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 177 177 71074 (C2) HDA temperature 113 102 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 91 91 6642 (F1) Unknown 200 200 57034359406 (F2) Unknown 200 200 24044767997 (FE) Unknown 199 199 1	53.7% Above average	Read 100 Write 86.9 Mixed 91.6 70% 92.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.14 67% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C14 2x8GB 1,565 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	MC Read 33.9 MC Write 34.4 MC Mixed 27.1 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 33 SC Mixed 27.8 74% 25.8 GB/s	Latency 47.4 84% 47.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 108%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,224x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $636

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 $178	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