Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 65% Destroyer	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


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 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 77.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	81.4% 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	75.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	15.1 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160516
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 28 '18 at 22:44
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	39%

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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 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 below expectations (23^rd percentile)	77.5% Very good	Memory 82.4 1-Core 124 2-Core 225 81% 144 Pts	4-Core 390 8-Core 689 65% 539 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$265 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.4% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 120 Parallax 106 89% 112 fps	MRender 83 Gravity 67 Splatting 92.2 67% 80.7 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 43GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4326 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2150 (B1) Unknown 98 98 28 (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 74 46 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 9 (EB) Unknown 99 99 636 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9938252180	109% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 412 Mixed 422 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 82 4K Mixed 44.1 163% 55.8 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 111 132% 233 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 29287717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 14018773259458 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2385 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 947 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 23 49 21478047767 (C2) HDA temperature 23 49 21478047767 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 29287717 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 29287717 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 29287717 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9217 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11679 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11679 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13180	75.1% Very good	Read 473 Write 237 Mixed 294 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 84.1 4K Mixed 17.6 107% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 70.6 98% 180 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 71 65 14105287 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 145 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 531423 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 34870839476358 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 29 (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 81 76 386138131 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 98 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 565 (C2) HDA temperature 19 40 12884901907 (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 13048110645300 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9424017 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4681270	94.5% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 151 Mixed 141 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.98 4K Mixed 0.26 96% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2800 C15 3x8GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 3 of 4 slots used 24GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	55% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 20.6 MC Mixed 18.1 56% 19.7 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 17.8 SC Mixed 13.2 40% 14.1 GB/s	Latency 76.1 52% 76.1 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 55% Great: 91%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,227x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	297x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	392x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 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: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $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