Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 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 87%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	120% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88.6% 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	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 (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151016
Uptime	3.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 05 '18 at 02:56
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing below expectations (37^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Memory 92 1-Core 128 2-Core 255 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 702 70% 572 Pts	64-Core 702 43% 702 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 165 Reflection 174 Parallax 147 134% 162 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 168 Splatting 115 108% 133 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO 1TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 7.5TB free Firmware: ZZZZ Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 80006008 (03) Spinup time 90 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1850 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 55 55 300670142559 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1711 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 165 (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 61 49 706674727 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5913 (C2) HDA temperature 39 51 64424509479 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 114 100 80006008 (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 32366873542944 (F1) Unknown 100 253 186857842 (F2) Unknown 100 253 370187638	13.4% Very poor	Read 61.2 Write 141 Mixed 90.3 22% 97.4 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 9 4K Mixed 0.65 7% 3.6 MB/s	DQ Read 3.98 DQ Write 7.84 DQ Mixed 1.13 2% 4.32 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 13.4% Great: 17%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$110 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1934 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 200 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 70 59 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 6 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12471278345	88.6% Excellent	Read 488 Write 398 Mixed 413 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 86 4K Mixed 33.8 128% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 119 92% 120 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 133%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$25 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 253GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 141729610 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1450 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 103195230 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7856 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1147 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 60 48 706740264 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1526 (C2) HDA temperature 40 9 38654705704 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 1 141729610 (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 -101232379158874 (F1) Unknown 100 253 35977341226 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28141095137	68.1% Good	Read 131 Write 106 Mixed 121 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.9% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.1 74% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 24.6 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 104%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P - $113

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	818x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	557x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	304x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	275x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	264x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	242x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	146x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	104x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	90x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	76x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $547

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $176	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16