Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5

Performance Results

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


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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Boot Drive	97.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '17 at 07:43
Run Duration	210 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	3%

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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 146 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 563 8-Core 810 86% 687 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2952 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 202 Reflection 213 Parallax 213 165% 209 fps	Gravity 198 Splatting 130 140% 164 fps
Poor: 109% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue SATA M.2 1TB-$77 2,710 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 888GB free Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 771 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 49 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4128821 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 827 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 68 292059414575 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 64425426959 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1029 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1155 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1129 (F2) Unknown 253 253 146 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.2% Excellent	Read 504 Write 347 Mixed 325 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 78.1 4K Mixed 14.1 117% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 310 DQ Write 212 DQ Mixed 12.4 76% 178 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 108%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3072 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1145 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 64 48 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11636181852	97.8% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 410 Mixed 416 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 48.1 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 27.5 166% 61.6 MB/s	DQ Read 48.9 DQ Write 117 DQ Mixed 27.4 37% 64.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 25GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2468 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 604 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 62 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1977561537	99.8% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 48.7 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 30.7 171% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 49.2 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 57.2 51% 75.3 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 134%
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 22GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3198 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1186 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25794969915 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 665 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 104 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 72 309239021612 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 386550792282 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2247 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3033 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2827 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3173 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	79.9% Very good	Read 500 Write 348 Mixed 326 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 20.4 124% 44.9 MB/s	DQ Read 38 DQ Write 83.5 DQ Mixed 13.3 24% 45 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 104%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 7GB free Firmware: O1203AB 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 292 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1816 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 15 (A3) Unknown 100 100 640 (94) Unknown 100 100 42676 (95) Unknown 100 100 654 (96) Unknown 100 100 454 (97) Unknown 100 100 601 (A4) Unknown 100 100 41294 (A5) Unknown 100 100 279 (A6) Unknown 100 100 26 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 170 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 40832893779996 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 132089 (F2) Unknown 100 100 197444 (F5) Unknown 100 100 487785 (F6) Unknown 100 100 170704 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	66% Good	Read 492 Write 238 Mixed 263 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 32.1 4K Write 59.8 4K Mixed 14.9 99% 35.6 MB/s	DQ Read 33.1 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 14.8 27% 51.8 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 95%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 66GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 151544656 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3349 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4433310232 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11533 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2354 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 66 59 605421602 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 484 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 88 88 24378 (C2) HDA temperature 34 41 51539607586 (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 -118910464547490 (F1) Unknown 100 253 36100467730 (F2) Unknown 100 253 97413278043	98.4% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 177 Mixed 123 116% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.22 63% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 18,693 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.8 MC Write 37.8 MC Mixed 27 98% 34.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.3 SC Write 39.6 SC Mixed 29.7 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 49.2 81% 49.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 102%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 - $167

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	640x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	297x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	121x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	92x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	40x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

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