Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.4% 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	96.6% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170704
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 13 '17 at 15:50
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	73.1% Very good	Memory 75.2 1-Core 101 2-Core 209 72% 128 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 419 55% 414 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 119 Parallax 103 94% 112 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 100 Splatting 98.8 81% 98.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 525GB-$140 20,154 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 358GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4065 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 337 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 40 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 37 270584184877 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2139541800 (F7) Unknown 100 100 66886581 (F8) Unknown 100 100 26623980 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1958 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	76.4% Very good	Read 473 Write 332 Mixed 331 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 24.8 4K Write 56.3 4K Mixed 23.8 98% 35 MB/s	DQ Read 244 DQ Write 95.2 DQ Mixed 44.1 66% 128 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 98%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 236GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9233 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1065 (B1) Unknown 98 98 33 (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 51 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 33847654813	96.6% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 392 Mixed 225 82% 373 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 66.7 4K Mixed 40.4 145% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 83 86% 145 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 355GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220698824 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5477 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16583448 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15226 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1986 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 62 605552676 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34919 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 73014444068 (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 -124605591184007 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10004407458 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11872650838	89.9% Excellent	Read 193 Write 121 Mixed 36.5 85% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.24 76% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 4TB 883 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2.5TB free, PID ab38 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	56.1% Above average	Read 141 Write 142 Mixed 36.2 127% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.18 59% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 56.1% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G4D240FSB.8FARG 859B BLS4G4D240FSE.8FBD 859B BLS4G4D240FSB.8FARG 859B BLS4G4D240FSE.8FBD 16GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.9% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 22.9 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.9 SC Write 26 SC Mixed 21.3 58% 20.4 GB/s	Latency 89.9 44% 89.9 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 94%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	308x
Core i7-6700Intel $219Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	248x
Core i7-6700KIntel $219Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	174x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	191x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	153x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $75Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	31x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	49x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	32x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $314

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