Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


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 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 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	79.4% 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	48.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	24.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	May 16 '17 at 01:02
Run Duration	150 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 88.6 1-Core 131 2-Core 261 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 490 8-Core 718 75% 604 Pts	64-Core 718 44% 718 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	79.4% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 113 Parallax 92.9 83% 102 fps	MRender 89.4 Gravity 86.8 Splatting 91.6 73% 89.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 233GB free Firmware: 1B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 2,343 Write 1,049 Mixed 1,407 352% 1,599 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 41.3 4K Mixed 22.6 94% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 39.8 DQ Write 91.3 DQ Mixed 40.4 38% 57.1 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 236%
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 94GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1309 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 142 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C2) HDA temperature 60 52 206159413288 (F1) Unknown 100 100 74100	48.1% Average	Read 363 Write 273 Mixed 271 67% 303 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 19.1 4K Mixed 8.61 46% 14.6 MB/s	DQ Read 99.6 DQ Write 61.5 DQ Mixed 28.1 35% 63.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 48.1% Great: 101%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 385GB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10462 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 131 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 1307 (0A) Spinup retry count 102 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 125 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 415 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864052776 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 98 98 1137 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 623 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	65.2% Good	Read 115 Write 112 Mixed 120 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.34 123% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS16G4D240FSC.16FAD 2x16GB 600 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	79.4% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 25.3 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 33.4 SC Mixed 25.1 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 85%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,213x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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