Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 100% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 91.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	126% 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	75.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). 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	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 27 '17 at 07:33
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing as expected (52^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Memory 91 1-Core 145 2-Core 283 95% 173 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 776 78% 635 Pts	64-Core 794 49% 794 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 174 Reflection 187 Parallax 182 142% 181 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 173 Splatting 120 112% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 657GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13981 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 602 (B1) Unknown 97 97 28 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 257 (F1) Unknown 99 99 101011961461	75.5% Very good	Read 376 Write 282 Mixed 271 69% 310 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 65.5 4K Mixed 26.1 131% 44.3 MB/s	DQ Read 43.4 DQ Write 159 DQ Mixed 22.2 40% 74.8 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 126%
PNY SSD2SC120G1CS1754D117-551 120GB 2,096 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 112GB free Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^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 93 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 553 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 32 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 996 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 42 (E7) Temperature 100 100 35 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 26 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2275 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8056	89.7% Excellent	Read 425 Write 295 Mixed 349 79% 356 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 35.2 139% 54.5 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 63.5 106% 203 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 90%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 112GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3804676 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -65549790841337 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1313 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 134 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3804676 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3804676 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3804676 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18726 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16727 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16727 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14484	65.5% Good	Read 507 Write 137 Mixed 207 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 12.5 117% 49.7 MB/s	DQ Read 33.8 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 41.6 45% 70.6 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 82%
WD Blue 320GB (2007)-$65 108,153 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 181GB free Firmware: 01.03E01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 136 135 4158 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4762 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 37207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2116 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 354 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4762 (C2) HDA temperature 110 88 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	39% Below average	Read 72.8 Write 62.8 Mixed 65.4 50% 67 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$38 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.7% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 22.8 74% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 23.2 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 107%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 69%

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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	2,228x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	392x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 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: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $634

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16