Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 64.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	87% 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	83% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	6.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160302
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '17 at 16:36
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	62%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	64.7% Good	Memory 73.5 1-Core 102 2-Core 160 66% 112 Pts	4-Core 300 8-Core 651 55% 476 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3703) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2006 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 113 Parallax 97 89% 107 fps	MRender 99.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 101 82% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 877 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 168 (B1) Unknown 89 89 54 (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 63 56 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 14 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15356454870	83% Excellent	Read 482 Write 267 Mixed 272 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 39.4 4K Write 60.2 4K Mixed 27.2 126% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 283 DQ Write 152 DQ Mixed 61.7 88% 165 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 110%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 42GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 877 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 168 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 64 64 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 309213506	83.1% Excellent	Read 481 Write 268 Mixed 274 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 60.2 4K Mixed 26.8 126% 42.3 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 62.7 89% 169 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 110%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 26GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 877 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 174 (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 65 56 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 618026718	82.9% Excellent	Read 482 Write 265 Mixed 275 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 59.6 4K Mixed 27.2 126% 42.2 MB/s	DQ Read 287 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 64.7 89% 167 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 50173320 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 178 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1282100 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 832 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 176 (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 66 505217053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2924 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 77309411357 (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 53515292508751 (F1) Unknown 100 253 443809112 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1052342496	111% Outstanding	Read 209 Write 178 Mixed 172 140% 186 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.22 86% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 99999536 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 176 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1140379 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 836 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 174 (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 65 505217053 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2895 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 77309411357 (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 89687507075678 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2122878805 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1195231048	99.7% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 163 Mixed 160 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.25 86% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 114%
StoreJet Transcend 1TB 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 120GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	18.9% Very poor	Read 40.1 Write 39.6 Mixed 39.7 51% 39.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.32 60% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 18.9% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 1x8GB-$25 19,648 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	36.2% Below average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 13.5 MC Mixed 10.3 36% 12.8 GB/s	SC Read 8.1 SC Write 10 SC Mixed 8.5 25% 8.87 GB/s	Latency 93.6 43% 93.6 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 36.2% Great: 47%

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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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 $95Bench 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 $279	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 $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