Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	115% 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	152% 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, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 02:47
Run Duration	258 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 139 2-Core 280 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 721 74% 594 Pts	64-Core 710 44% 710 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6686) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 159 Parallax 135 127% 150 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 145 Splatting 116 103% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Micron_1100_MTFDDAK2T0TBN 2TB 5,114 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 1.5TB free Firmware: M0MU031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 88 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 67 141735034905 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1807750740 (F7) Unknown 100 100 56539163 (F8) Unknown 100 100 2970827 (B4) Unknown 0 0 9391 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	105% Outstanding	Read 452 Write 496 Mixed 450 104% 466 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 37.8 142% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 35.7 99% 211 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 101%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 232GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12441 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2160 (B1) Unknown 98 98 23 (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 75 60 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 311 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16660809656	70.1% Very good	Read 371 Write 180 Mixed 183 54% 245 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 26 124% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 77.3 82% 136 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 118%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 223GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 3943 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 830 (A5) Unknown 100 100 227645128853 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 114 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 50 214748364835 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 210453790769 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 114 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1391 (F1) Unknown 253 253 635 (F2) Unknown 253 253 547 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75.9% Very good	Read 469 Write 425 Mixed 457 101% 450 MB/s	4K Read 15.2 4K Write 81.9 4K Mixed 5.57 74% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 209 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 5.73 70% 164 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 86%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 210GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3884 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 754 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 73 65 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 79 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6645262895	124% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 490 Mixed 505 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 57.6 192% 70.8 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 293 DQ Mixed 149 158% 263 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 124%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF109C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	152% Outstanding	Read 1,308 Write 561 Mixed 775 194% 881 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 46.1 166% 67.4 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 101 136% 245 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 152% Great: 157%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 112GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18253 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3171 (B1) Unknown 98 98 46 (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 75 60 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 236 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5992904095	74.9% Very good	Read 493 Write 386 Mixed 438 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 71.7 4K Mixed 21.3 96% 37.8 MB/s	DQ Read 21.1 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 74.6 53% 65.6 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GF3000C15K4 4x8GB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 29.9 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 26.7 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 111%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	644x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	305x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	378x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

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 $184	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) $35	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