Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 137% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 117% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	140% 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	69.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	1.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '17 at 22:08
Run Duration	145 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.6% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 144 2-Core 287 98% 176 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 784 82% 657 Pts	64-Core 794 49% 794 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.6% 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 85E2) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2854 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	140% Outstanding	Lighting 199 Reflection 220 Parallax 192 162% 204 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 189 Splatting 138 126% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1561 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 140 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12923044346 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 41 (A8) Unknown 100 100 22 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1036 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 60 257699151902 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1288507883820 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8589 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10388 (F1) Unknown 253 253 8270 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10850 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	69.5% Good	Read 479 Write 301 Mixed 321 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 25.7 4K Mixed 15.9 67% 21.1 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 44.6 93% 194 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 107%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 51GB free Firmware: CC43 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 114 99 82897856 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 495 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 83002849 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4320 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 505 (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 69 55 538443807 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6531 (C2) HDA temperature 31 45 55834574879 (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 14233521623416 (F1) Unknown 100 253 44477008612 (F2) Unknown 100 253 172746735728	58% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 104 Mixed 95.5 74% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 5.41 4K Mixed 0.65 197% 2.21 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 58% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 8GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204830968 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1606 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 33223992 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 658 (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 68 50 538378272 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 208 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22239 (C2) HDA temperature 32 50 55834574880 (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 125679333018056 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22812064552 (F2) Unknown 100 253 15488680402	61.7% Good	Read 109 Write 106 Mixed 90 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.28 85% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 577 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 39.9 MC Mixed 31.5 103% 35.9 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 31.8 93% 32.7 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 111%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Ultra Gaming-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	297x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	96x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	92x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	136x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	77x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	23x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	16x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	39x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	29x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	15x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

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