Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 35% Sail boat	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 30% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 86.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	31.9% 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	66.7% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160301
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 05:01
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.8% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 86% 154 Pts	4-Core 450 8-Core 644 69% 547 Pts	64-Core 655 40% 655 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% EVGA(3842 6255) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	31.9% Below average	Lighting 39.8 Reflection 31.4 Parallax 41 32% 37.4 fps	MRender 38.7 Gravity 37.8 Splatting 36.5 31% 37.7 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.9% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 230GB free Firmware: DXT07B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6801 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3456 (B1) Unknown 98 98 13 (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 77 50 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 118 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10724377375	78.1% Very good	Read 456 Write 293 Mixed 232 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 17 106% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 34.6 84% 179 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 89%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4619 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3882 (B1) Unknown 95 95 157 (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 72 50 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 93 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26026577797	66.7% Good	Read 495 Write 179 Mixed 215 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 56.3 4K Mixed 18.4 84% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 61 92% 182 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 116%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$20 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 465GB free Firmware: 18.01H18 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 141 139 3908 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3877 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10592 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2706 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 55 387317783 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3775 (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	67.8% Good	Read 117 Write 119 Mixed 117 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.5 114% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 69%
Samsung HD502HJ 500GB-$50 72,924 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 436GB free Firmware: 1AJ10002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 56 56 4239 (03) Spinup time 82 80 5648 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3349 (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 2180 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2698 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 9 (BC) Unknown 252 252 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 56 188979478549 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 3824 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979478549 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 9 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0	77.6% Very good	Read 135 Write 135 Mixed 124 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.94 4K Mixed 0.4 124% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 77%
Hitachi HTS725050A7E630 500GB-$125 56,661 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 212GB free Firmware: GH2OA440 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 210 100 81604378625 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 430 (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 98 98 1129 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 399 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 8590393344 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 54 320208918 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 165 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2555943 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 36177 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	50% Above average	Read 104 Write 70.3 Mixed 104 70% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.22 89% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$118 9,846 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.1% Excellent	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 27 86% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 23.5 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 87%

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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 $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,082x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	649x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	308x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	380x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	248x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16