Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	212% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	14.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '18 at 00:12
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (57^th 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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 95 1-Core 134 2-Core 271 93% 167 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 734 74% 599 Pts	64-Core 749 46% 749 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 90%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 65GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11770 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2095 (B1) Unknown 97 97 34 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 47 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 423 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19322122109
Poor: 72% Great: 126%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 59GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	212% Outstanding	Read 1,865 Write 898 Mixed 1,107 284% 1,290 MB/s	4K Read 44.7 4K Write 154 4K Mixed 50.3 214% 83.1 MB/s	DQ Read 466 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 189 196% 324 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 212% Great: 243%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$137 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1.5TB free Firmware: AR17 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 117 99 126757840 (03) Spinup time 94 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1382 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 8618398232 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10999 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 792 (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 72 54 471072796 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 1 1 221892 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 248559 (C2) HDA temperature 28 46 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 126757840 (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 98462125268889 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25887865031 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26645904106
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 440 (03) Spinup time 182 175 7900 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2390 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19357 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1367 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 367 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 119 119 243421 (C2) HDA temperature 124 101 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	68.3% Good	Read 135 Write 103 Mixed 131 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.21 74% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 87%
Seagate IronWolf 4TB (2016)-$95 26,217 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 477GB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 70 64 11186602 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 351 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 164870660 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 -34376918234262 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 240 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 60 420610073 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17120 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 73014444057 (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 -12541304501468 (F1) Unknown 100 253 28062424654 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22634195049	65.1% Good	Read 116 Write 112 Mixed 98.8 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.21 70% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 527 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2992 MHz Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)	96.4% Outstanding	MC Read 33.5 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 30.5 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 40.6 SC Mixed 30.5 88% 30.6 GB/s	Latency 57 70% 57 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 115%

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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 $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