Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	135% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	51.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151019
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '17 at 15:51
Run Duration	282 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing as expected (54^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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 88 1-Core 108 2-Core 221 79% 139 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 445 58% 439 Pts	64-Core 421 26% 421 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751); Aorus 1080ti CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2862 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 197 Parallax 183 154% 189 fps	MRender 138 Gravity 194 Splatting 134 126% 155 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 115GB 2,637 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 39GB free Firmware: 1.35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10247792003747 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 147 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 66 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15040 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6144 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6144 (F2) Unknown 0 0 24000	39.8% Below average	Read 237 Write 62.5 Mixed 87.1 28% 129 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 12.6 78% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 67.5 DQ Mixed 27.4 36% 66.7 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 49%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 24GB free Firmware: 000F Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	48.9% Average	Read 377 Write 194 Mixed 255 61% 275 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 48.1 4K Mixed 5.85 65% 25 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 64.8 DQ Mixed 6.13 27% 60.9 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 72%
Transcend SSD370 128GB-$74 4,687 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: N111 Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	51.7% Above average	Read 363 Write 146 Mixed 206 52% 238 MB/s	4K Read 20.5 4K Write 43 4K Mixed 14.6 72% 26 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 40.2 60% 114 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$67 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 183GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 97 87 169926508 (03) Spinup time 94 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14630 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 104 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17254367261 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 25771 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 98 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 2715 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65540 (BD) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BE) vendor-specific 63 54 623050789 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 60034 (C2) HDA temperature 37 46 55834574885 (C5) Current pending sector count 81 79 3168 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 81 79 3168 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 99565931863534 (F1) Unknown 100 253 40829062883 (F2) Unknown 100 253 46946257379	81.2% Excellent	Read 134 Write 149 Mixed 131 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.22 72% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 113%
WD WD10EARS-00Y5B1 1TB 112 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 124GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 34 (03) Spinup time 128 119 6583 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 21490 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 43902 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 558 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 127 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 172 172 86132 (C2) HDA temperature 110 95 37 (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	49.5% Average	Read 101 Write 71.5 Mixed 93.6 67% 88.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.14 59% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB 2,748 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 25.3 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.8 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 21.2 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 69.6 58% 69.6 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 81%

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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	2,233x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	475x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	484x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	394x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $643

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	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 $39	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) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16