Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	68.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160301
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 31 '16 at 06:20
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	41%

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PC Performing as expected (59^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Memory 90.8 1-Core 120 2-Core 236 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 696 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6881 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 223GB free Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4741133 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -138263587186652 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1429 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 117 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 40 77312032799 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 77312032799 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4741133 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4741133 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4741133 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9350 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8435 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8435 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7423	79.7% Very good	Read 481 Write 237 Mixed 268 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 19.5 122% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 69.8 98% 180 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 85%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 167GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 19823434 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 44186623541266 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 28 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 6 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 31 38 94491770911 (C2) HDA temperature 31 38 94491770911 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 19823434 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 19823434 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 19823434 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 112 (EA) Unknown 0 0 136 (F1) Unknown 0 0 136 (F2) Unknown 0 0 71 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1507345	68.7% Good	Read 471 Write 219 Mixed 306 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 12.7 109% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 32.2 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 13 43% 88.4 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 85%
WD2000FYYX 2TB 200 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2TB free Firmware: 00.0D1K2 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 212 208 4400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 184 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 10217 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 184 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 125 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 76 (C2) HDA temperature 107 98 3477035 (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 (F1) Unknown 200 200 791465333646 (F2) Unknown 200 200 72677938491	86.2% Excellent	Read 148 Write 152 Mixed 151 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 3.23 4K Mixed 0.62 166% 1.58 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 89%
WD2000FYYX 2TB 200 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 613GB free Firmware: 00.0D1K2 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 1 0 (03) Spinup time 212 208 4391 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 985 (05) Reallocated sector count 197 197 113 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10433 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 876 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 108 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13437 (C2) HDA temperature 104 102 3150126 (C4) Reallocation count 136 136 64 (C5) Current pending sector count 195 194 1880 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 196 194 1367 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 192 181 2228 (F1) Unknown 200 200 690049374084 (F2) Unknown 200 200 68559908547	64.3% Good	Read 105 Write 119 Mixed 108 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.62 149% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 89%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 1,481 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.2% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23.5 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 23.8 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 66.1 60% 66.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 136%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	380x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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