Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.8% 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 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 Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	28.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colores, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '17 at 10:16
Run Duration	136 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 120 2-Core 236 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 656 68% 549 Pts	64-Core 658 41% 658 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 3739) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.6% Good	Lighting 80.4 Reflection 79.5 Parallax 69.3 66% 76.4 fps	MRender 70.8 Gravity 73.3 Splatting 74.6 60% 72.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$140 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 419GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	308% Outstanding	Read 2,459 Write 1,478 Mixed 1,478 398% 1,805 MB/s	4K Read 65 4K Write 214 4K Mixed 55.7 283% 112 MB/s	DQ Read 927 DQ Write 693 DQ Mixed 282 354% 634 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 308% Great: 254%
Kingston SM2280S3G2240G 240GB 3,414 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 107GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2291 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 743 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 476 (AD) Unknown 100 100 786473 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 104 (C2) HDA temperature 62 43 244814512166 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1312 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2866 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3507 (F4) Unknown 100 100 12 (F5) Unknown 100 100 41 (F6) Unknown 100 100 869632	73.8% Very good	Read 520 Write 110 Mixed 198 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 12.6 126% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 243 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 57.1 94% 182 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 97%
WD WD6401AALS-00E3A 640GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 179GB free Firmware: 05.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 170 4075 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2000 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1982 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 111 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1888 (C2) HDA temperature 119 97 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	43.1% Average	Read 74 Write 75.6 Mixed 71.5 56% 73.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.47 126% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x16GB-$65 2,716 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	74.8% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.4 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 23.1 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 81%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,090x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	651x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	315x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	383x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	250x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	246x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	133x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	70x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $765

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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) $29	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