Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 DDR3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 59% Gunboat


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 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 80.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82% 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	56.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 DDR3-CF (all builds)
Memory	15.8 GB free of 20 GB @ 1.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150723
Uptime	7.8 Days
Run Date	Jul 20 '17 at 15:05
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	26%

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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 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	80.1% Excellent	Memory 83.6 1-Core 127 2-Core 236 83% 149 Pts	4-Core 412 8-Core 702 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8596) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 113 Parallax 96.4 83% 104 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 95.5 Splatting 99.8 80% 97.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZ7TN512HDHP-00000 512GB 111 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 177GB free Firmware: MAT0107Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 428 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 160 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 99 99 4 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3713 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 60 29 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 16777215 (F1) Unknown 99 99 339 (F2) Unknown 99 99 367 (F9) Unknown 99 99 339	117% Outstanding	Read 499 Write 463 Mixed 486 108% 483 MB/s	4K Read 35.7 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 47.9 176% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 329 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 114 143% 252 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 117%
Samsung MZ7TD128HAFV-000L1 128GB 4,607 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 25GB free Firmware: DXT04L0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5241 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2893 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 91 91 109 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3120 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 50 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E9) Unknown 199 199 2461639 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 815 (EC) Unknown 99 99 66 (ED) Unknown 99 99 109 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	56.7% Above average	Read 421 Write 95.5 Mixed 91.1 43% 202 MB/s	4K Read 19.4 4K Write 83.8 4K Mixed 9.23 86% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 25.9 71% 157 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 71%
Intel 335 Series 180GB-$169 2,872 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: 335u Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 117948391886316 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1616 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 716 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 256912 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 256912 (F2) Unknown 100 100 168785 (F9) Unknown 100 100 6241	56.9% Above average	Read 447 Write 170 Mixed 235 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 15.4 4K Write 86.9 4K Mixed 10.2 82% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 19.3 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 9.72 38% 79.1 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 255GB free Firmware: JC4A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 187456653 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96712748 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8765 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 37 11948 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 90 61 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 454557723 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 55834574875 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 22 187456653 (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 -124206159144107 (F1) Unknown 100 253 37632385 (F2) Unknown 100 253 553850058	49.4% Average	Read 93.6 Write 78.6 Mixed 75.5 62% 82.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.36 77% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 99U5471-039.A00LF 0420 F3-1600C11-8GNT 0420 F3-1600C11-4GIS 20GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 1600, 1600, 1600 MHz 8192, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.6% Average	MC Read 17.4 MC Write 18.1 MC Mixed 15.6 49% 17 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 16.7 SC Mixed 15.2 43% 15 GB/s	Latency 74.2 54% 74.2 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 58%

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Gaming 29%

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Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 25%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 DDR3-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	65x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	50x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	34x

GPU
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	24x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	20x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	14x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	10x
860 Evo 250GBSamsung $52Bench 104%, 296,814 samples	8x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	12x
Vengeance DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBCorsairBench 54%, 43,127 samples	8x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	7x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $339

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16