Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	94% 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	81.3% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	27.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160223
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 18:30
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

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PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	72.7% Very good	Memory 90.3 1-Core 118 2-Core 233 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 311 8-Core 372 44% 341 Pts	64-Core 394 24% 394 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 122 Parallax 115 98% 119 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 105 Splatting 106 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 113 100 113 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 309 (A6) Unknown 100 100 55 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 178 (A9) Unknown 100 100 33 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 163 (AE) Unknown 100 100 70 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 214748364837 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 26465 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7485 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8342	81.3% Excellent	Read 449 Write 360 Mixed 410 91% 406 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 4.21 110% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 223 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 28.7 85% 180 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 86%
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 (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 187279840 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 24 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 641441 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2774 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 24 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 522125343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5340 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 81604378655 (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 -55697135892332 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2065288450 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22429848573	102% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 169 Mixed 173 133% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.23 81% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 753GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 119391836 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 154 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6716413 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8465 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 82 (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 70 55 505217054 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 480 (C2) HDA temperature 30 17 73014444062 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 119391836 (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 101756365185193 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2883282235 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3104427236	98.6% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 158 Mixed 150 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.28 99% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 112%
WD WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB 1TB 17,076 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 180GB free Firmware: 03.01A01 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 191 185 1450 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17716 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3806 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3260 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 168 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 165 165 105524 (C2) HDA temperature 112 90 35 (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 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 96 96 3530	53.3% Above average	Read 97.6 Write 86.6 Mixed 73.5 64% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 5.95 4K Mixed 0.52 214% 2.53 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 53.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport LT DDR4 2400 C16 4x8GB-$227 628 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	MC Read 29.8 MC Write 33.8 MC Mixed 30 89% 31.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 26.7 76% 26.8 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 88%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 61%

Destroyer

Desktop 82%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 48%

Yacht

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - $113

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	478x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	193x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	234x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	178x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	117x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	73x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	50x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	57x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	49x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $457

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