Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.9% 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	93% 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	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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (30%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	8.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	2.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '18 at 01:44
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	30%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 88.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 229 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 399 8-Core 535 59% 467 Pts	64-Core 497 31% 497 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.9% Very good	Lighting 102 Reflection 107 Parallax 97.1 83% 102 fps	MRender 89.5 Gravity 93.3 Splatting 78 70% 87 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ts512gss D370S 512GB 133 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1126KB Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3646 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 668 (A0) Unknown 100 100 1 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 89103 (A5) Unknown 100 100 142 (A6) Unknown 100 100 40 (A7) Unknown 100 100 87 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 534 (B2) Unknown 100 100 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 26074 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 865680 (F2) Unknown 100 100 334698 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1425648	93% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 431 Mixed 466 105% 472 MB/s	4K Read 27 4K Write 97.4 4K Mixed 29 130% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 27.7 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 21.1 56% 110 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 109863875 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 776 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 116302072 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -45930380259444 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 466 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 487981085 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 147 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1938 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 85899345949 (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 -35626753716616 (F1) Unknown 100 253 76446569097 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22646523144	92.2% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 140 Mixed 126 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.26 90% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 101 89 3344184 (03) Spinup time 93 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6490 (05) Reallocated sector count 96 96 5272 (07) Seek error rate 62 57 326523168911 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21438 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2155 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 809 (BC) Unknown 100 89 4295032847 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 114 (BE) vendor-specific 69 54 521535519 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 960 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 36 36 129034 (C2) HDA temperature 31 46 64424509471 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 99 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 99 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -108177341275481 (F1) Unknown 100 253 411063122623 (F2) Unknown 100 253 427995202408	80.5% Excellent	Read 167 Write 114 Mixed 83.3 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.45 4K Mixed 0.15 30% 0.24 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 113%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 239GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 214543100 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 8152 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 103808195 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 127504694124659 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 664 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 62 471203868 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4751 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18098 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 81604378652 (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 -38100654880740 (F1) Unknown 100 253 127961788400 (F2) Unknown 100 253 120202155675	54.7% Above average	Read 90.9 Write 99.5 Mixed 91.8 71% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.25 85% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 6GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 89 87 218421752 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11393 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25033954 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 16321 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1628 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 3381 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 43 43521671202 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 691 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 51391 (C2) HDA temperature 34 57 73014444066 (C5) Current pending sector count 97 97 552 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 97 97 552 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 120774480369352 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12587496429027 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61192227390020	41% Average	Read 64.1 Write 78.7 Mixed 77.5 56% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 0.75 4K Mixed 0.3 76% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 41% Great: 114%
Seagate Desktop 1TB 4,684 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 20GB free, PID 3300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	18% Very poor	Read 37.2 Write 38.5 Mixed 38.3 49% 38 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.36 60% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 18% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C14 2x16GB 613 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.4% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 25.7 MC Mixed 20.4 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 20.1 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 68.7 58% 68.7 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 125%

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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 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,220x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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