Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.6% 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	270% 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	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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z170-HD3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	28.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	1.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 17:25
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 119 2-Core 234 83% 148 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 461 62% 460 Pts	64-Core 462 29% 462 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2176 MHz, MLim: 2157 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.6% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 124 Parallax 120 101% 123 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 110 Splatting 104 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 94GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	270% Outstanding	Read 1,989 Write 1,760 Mixed 1,573 395% 1,774 MB/s	4K Read 48.6 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 57 218% 80.1 MB/s	DQ Read 411 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 180 188% 309 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 270% Great: 353%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 168370640 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 55 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1975225 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6437 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 555614239 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16288 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 81604378655 (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 126817499354044 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2724486567 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22838175520	103% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 165 Mixed 170 133% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.23 89% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 929GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 63 85682834 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 198 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22290846 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12132 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (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 55 505085981 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 664 (C2) HDA temperature 29 17 73014444061 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 11 1 85682834 (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 76493367553765 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3474293037 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3687040427	106% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 171 Mixed 145 129% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.29 106% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%
WD WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB 1TB 17,076 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 180GB free Firmware: 03.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 185 1500 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17795 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3807 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3291 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 188 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 165 165 105624 (C2) HDA temperature 113 90 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 96 96 3531
Poor: 17% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 4x8GB-$227 628 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	85.7% Excellent	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 33.3 MC Mixed 29.1 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 31.8 SC Mixed 25.5 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 68 59% 68 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 88%

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 48%

Yacht

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - $113

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	478x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	193x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	234x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	117x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	73x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	50x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	57x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	49x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $466

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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