Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 Ultra-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (49%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-UD3 Ultra
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 Ultra-CF (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161017
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 29 '17 at 15:40
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	49%

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PC Performing below expectations (39^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 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 81.1 1-Core 133 2-Core 239 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 415 8-Core 595 63% 505 Pts	64-Core 632 39% 632 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 120 Parallax 106 93% 113 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 117 Splatting 98.6 85% 104 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force LE 480GB-$277 5,507 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC12.1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^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 5390 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 175 (A2) Unknown 100 100 582 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 458776 (AE) Unknown 100 100 24 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 93 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5411 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7530	76.3% Very good	Read 513 Write 352 Mixed 353 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 74.5 4K Mixed 10.2 102% 39.2 MB/s	DQ Read 32.4 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 42 56% 96.6 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 100%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 96GB free Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 7153317 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 -105613245785296 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1715 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 29 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (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 7153317 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7153317 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7153317 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9039 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7335 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7335 (F2) Unknown 0 0 14247	72.5% Very good	Read 499 Write 139 Mixed 210 61% 282 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 16.2 130% 53.9 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 45.5 64% 118 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 82%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 61GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd 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 6969 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 812 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 138 (AE) Unknown 100 100 64 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 53 201863462952 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 28445194906 (F7) Unknown 100 100 896584692 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1295337191	77.6% Very good	Read 479 Write 261 Mixed 340 80% 360 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 18.4 125% 53.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.7 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 38.9 61% 109 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 91%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 169 6408 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 173 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5308 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 171 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2289 (C2) HDA temperature 110 99 40 (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	87.7% Excellent	Read 149 Write 157 Mixed 139 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.51 4K Mixed 0.28 109% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 2,444 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	60.7% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 24.1 MC Mixed 19.4 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 9.6 SC Write 17.3 SC Mixed 13.6 39% 13.5 GB/s	Latency 78.5 51% 78.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 135%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD3 Ultra-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	63x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	37x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	17x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	34x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	11x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	11x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	6x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	5x

RAM
CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 029E CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 029E CMK16GX4M2B3200C16 029E CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 32GBUnknownBench 83%, 912 samples	6x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	4x
Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCrucial $118Bench 77%, 9,846 samples	4x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $412

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	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