Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 38% Jet ski	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	34.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	189% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 12:11
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	UKR-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 136 2-Core 272 92% 167 Pts	4-Core 534 8-Core 539 72% 536 Pts	64-Core 537 33% 537 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Gigabyte(1458 36C8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	34.2% Below average	Lighting 44.5 Reflection 42.6 Parallax 38.1 36% 41.7 fps	MRender 39 Gravity 39.1 Splatting 34.1 30% 37.4 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 2,155 Write 868 Mixed 1,255 313% 1,426 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 70.4 4K Mixed 30.7 119% 43.1 MB/s	DQ Read 403 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 127 143% 249 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 34GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 3 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16486 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 402 (B1) Unknown 96 96 194 (B3) Unknown 99 99 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 3 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 97 (BE) vendor-specific 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 97 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 76 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36259234989	103% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 482 Mixed 514 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 70.5 4K Mixed 38.6 121% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 157 169% 283 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 713GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 127585520 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 342 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 54311482 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12155 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 71 50 488112157 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 30940 (C2) HDA temperature 29 50 64424509469 (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 -64261300672504 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22024388470 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34220419928	63.7% Good	Read 112 Write 110 Mixed 111 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.22 71% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 248GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 149759224 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 193 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4379863 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1544 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 167 (B7) Unknown 94 94 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 25770197758 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 488046621 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 67 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5317 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 77309411357 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 172 247 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 91298119812389 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8589539567 (F2) Unknown 100 253 451954525183	53.7% Above average	Read 109 Write 78.3 Mixed 121 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.14 61% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 112%
WD Black 1.5TB (2010) 6,983 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 210GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8075 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1648 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6791 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1365 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 275 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1372 (C2) HDA temperature 117 100 35 (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 4 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	75.8% Very good	Read 154 Write 110 Mixed 106 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.4 120% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 85%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 301GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 1 1 35630 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 68 37 9812 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5913 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29960 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4776 (B5) Unknown 97 97 73429545 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4808 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 214748889115 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 90 90 5454 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 137 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 4 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 232297	61.6% Good	Read 95.5 Write 119 Mixed 111 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.23 4K Write 2.44 4K Mixed 0.26 84% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown GY2800D464L16/8G 2x8GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	72.5% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 21.6 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 22.6 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 89%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	306x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	379x
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 $94Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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