Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GamingG1

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	57.1% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GamingG1 (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 10 '17 at 20:54
Run Duration	260 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 92.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 262 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 741 72% 593 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367A) CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.19 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	57.1% Above average	Lighting 72.9 Reflection 71.3 Parallax 62.2 59% 68.8 fps	MRender 73.9 Gravity 65.4 Splatting 56.6 52% 65.3 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 42GB free Firmware: DXT09B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8660 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3002 (B1) Unknown 92 92 89 (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 75 48 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 310 (F1) Unknown 99 99 74614737067	60.8% Good	Read 489 Write 94 Mixed 79 47% 221 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 69.3 4K Mixed 12.8 92% 35.9 MB/s	DQ Read 304 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 29.5 68% 147 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 89%
HPT DISK 0_2 4TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 111% 3TB free Firmware: 4.00 Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 219 Write 135 Mixed 138 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 2.04 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.28 146% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 101% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 137%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 155 140 11208 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3559 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6760 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1185 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3328 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 36 (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	78.7% Very good	Read 132 Write 142 Mixed 131 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.64 4K Mixed 0.24 110% 1.24 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 112%
HPT DISK 0_1 1TB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 886GB free Firmware: 4.00 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	78.3% Very good	Read 200 Write 73.5 Mixed 93.3 91% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.32 101% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 78%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 840GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 592 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3568 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 587 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 558 (C2) HDA temperature 118 103 25 (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	98.4% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 175 Mixed 143 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.23 103% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 108%
Seagate ST31000520AS 1TB-$250 11,608 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 520GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 169992389 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16644 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 280961948 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14354 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5385 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 14 700091541158 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 521273374 (C2) HDA temperature 30 48 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 27 169992389 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 7 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 128423817144468 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1601105539 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1769748609	44.2% Average	Read 83.5 Write 70.5 Mixed 79.6 59% 77.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.31 76% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 221GB free Firmware: CC46 Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile)	45.6% Average	Read 81.4 Write 77.5 Mixed 72.9 58% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.24 4K Mixed 0.4 87% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 45.6% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3866 C18 4x4GB 230 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.1% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 23.3 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.3 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 62.7 64% 62.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 124%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-GamingG1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	118x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	18x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	14x

GPU
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	24x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	21x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	17x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	7x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	6x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	6x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	5x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GBG.SKILL $139Bench 95%, 14,506 samples	5x

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Value: 57% - Above average

Total price: $828

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16