Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 45% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	53.8% 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	114% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '17 at 05:29
Run Duration	269 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 (99^th percentile)	90% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 126 2-Core 254 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 504 67% 499 Pts	64-Core 506 31% 506 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	53.8% Above average	Lighting 67.5 Reflection 69.4 Parallax 68.6 55% 68.5 fps	MRender 74.1 Gravity 62.8 Splatting 55 51% 64 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 53.8% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 512GB-$200 31,545 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 409GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3225 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2829 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 22 (AE) Unknown 100 100 475 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 42 249109479457 (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 100 100 35 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 14998734383 (F7) Unknown 100 100 470203208 (F8) Unknown 100 100 190560908	93.2% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 479 Mixed 457 107% 481 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 21.8 138% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31.6 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 30.1 38% 64.3 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 107%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 404GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3425 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1540 (B1) Unknown 98 98 30 (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 65 49 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 422 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30205584576	114% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 414 Mixed 420 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 47.3 4K Write 96.5 4K Mixed 47.4 183% 63.7 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 104 121% 209 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 134%
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 106GB free Firmware: O0730A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 61 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1544 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 208 (A3) Unknown 100 100 12 (94) Unknown 100 100 56835 (95) Unknown 100 100 580 (96) Unknown 100 100 411 (97) Unknown 100 100 551 (A4) Unknown 100 100 26461 (A5) Unknown 100 100 52 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 0 0 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 8 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 72 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0	63.8% Good	Read 498 Write 237 Mixed 261 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 60.5 4K Mixed 13.6 94% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 66.1 DQ Mixed 13.6 20% 36.9 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 100 19907856 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 51027 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (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 60 59 673644584 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 40 41 103079215144 (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 52338471469056 (F1) Unknown 100 253 344701934 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16408077	104% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 178 Mixed 166 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.24 91% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35483392 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 350701 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 63 59 623181861 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 37 41 81604378661 (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 93694711562246 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2391377058 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3702350	95.9% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 159 Mixed 162 125% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.22 87% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 114%
Seagate BUP Slim SL 2TB 8,475 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0302 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	63.1% Good	Read 111 Write 108 Mixed 122 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 3.73 4K Mixed 0.36 136% 1.58 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 65%
Seagate BUP Slim SL 2TB 8,475 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 703GB free Firmware: 0302 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	62.8% Good	Read 104 Write 115 Mixed 102 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.29 83% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 202GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 79843752 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9639 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 49613376 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6244 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4478 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 91 81605689414 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 60 41 219716976680 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 667 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16064 (C2) HDA temperature 40 59 81604378664 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 9 79843752 (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 -34175054767097 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2069990775 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3872480765	39.6% Below average	Read 70.8 Write 67.2 Mixed 62.7 50% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 0.14 52% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 39.6% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 1,799 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	MC Read 34 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 31.6 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 40.9 SC Mixed 30.2 87% 30.3 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 112%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,212x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	294x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	198x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	178x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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