Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	13.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	60.6% 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.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Apr 27 '17 at 17:13
Run Duration	263 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	46%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	82% Excellent	Memory 92.3 1-Core 125 2-Core 253 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 408 8-Core 453 56% 430 Pts	64-Core 483 30% 483 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K1200 4,005 User benchmarks, average bench 13% Nvidia(10DE 1140) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1032 MHz, MLim: 1252 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 377.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	13.9% Very poor	Lighting 17 Reflection 14 Parallax 15 14% 15.4 fps	MRender 20.4 Gravity 16.8 Splatting 14.5 14% 17.3 fps
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 13.9% Great: 14%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 1TB-$310 2,086 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 801GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6902 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 90 (A5) Unknown 100 100 63505087 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 36 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1013 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 37 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 38 163210002461 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2199024173568 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1634 (EA) Unknown 100 100 13545 (F1) Unknown 253 253 12900 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9821 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.6% Good	Read 494 Write 207 Mixed 222 67% 308 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 39.1 4K Mixed 10.2 75% 25.6 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 41.4 61% 114 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 106%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$249 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1TB free Firmware: MN6OAA10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 88 (03) Spinup time 140 140 34385953187 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 89 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 135 135 26 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7187 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 84 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 3726 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 3726 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 150325035038 (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 200 200 0
Poor: 40% Great: 85%
WD My Passport 0827 2TB 4,635 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 984GB free, PID 0827 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 12% Great: 43%
SanDisk SD SDDR-189 64GB 19 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 58GB free, PID b7bd Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 19.6 Write 14.3 Mixed 16.3 21% 16.7 MB/s	4K Read 6.46 4K Write 3.61 4K Mixed 2.44 230% 4.17 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 32 MC Mixed 28.1 85% 29.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 24.3 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 88%

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

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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 $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	482x
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 $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