Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 83.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.7% 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	62.9% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Aug 09 '17 at 04:01
Run Duration	86 Seconds
Run User	IND-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Memory 92.9 1-Core 122 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 404 8-Core 697 67% 551 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 118 Parallax 108 94% 114 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 106 Splatting 105 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 88%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM851 2.5 7mm 256GB 2,656 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 192GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT08D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 349 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 93 93 78 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4426 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17106557625 (F2) Unknown 99 99 25409397623	62.9% Good	Read 493 Write 260 Mixed 346 81% 366 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 52.3 4K Mixed 11.5 74% 28.2 MB/s	DQ Read 22.1 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 10.8 45% 92.6 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$36 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.6% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 20.9 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 23.2 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 109%

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

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 - $167

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	649x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	305x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	121x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	168x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	110x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	109x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	95x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	40x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $757

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	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