Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 27% Raft


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 83.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	28.8% 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	114% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151102
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 25 '16 at 07:31
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Memory 92 1-Core 131 2-Core 231 87% 151 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 704 67% 556 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 950-$100 111,509 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Gigabyte(1458 36C5) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5569 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	28.8% Poor	Lighting 36.2 Reflection 33.8 Parallax 33.7 30% 34.6 fps	MRender 36.9 Gravity 32.6 Splatting 32.4 28% 34 fps
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 28%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 409 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 136 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 66 58 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1219875059	114% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 394 Mixed 408 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 47.5 183% 64.4 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 115 140% 247 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 1TB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 78 44 6835 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6801 (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 22845 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 466 (B5) Unknown 100 100 17043677 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 254 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 210453790748 (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 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 704 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 12253	65.9% Good	Read 106 Write 124 Mixed 115 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.32 100% 1 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 72%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 184GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 78 78 7510 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5825 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 2 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13602 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 6 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3623 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 1 1 2112 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 52 454688794 (C2) HDA temperature 74 52 454688794 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2661569 (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 3407 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	39.2% Below average	Read 71.2 Write 65.3 Mixed 61.1 50% 65.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.34 80% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 39.2% Great: 58%
TDK LoR TF35 USB3.0 129GB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 115GB free, PID 0713, TDK TF30 128Gb Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	18% Very poor	Read 64.9 Write 30 Mixed 11.7 37% 35.5 MB/s	4K Read 5.05 4K Write 0.29 4K Mixed 0.32 39% 1.88 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 18% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x4GB 12,708 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	70% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 20 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 21.6 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 80%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	305x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	248x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	190x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	153x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	31x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	49x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	32x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $323

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 $179	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