Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	11.8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	263% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151019
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '16 at 14:45
Run Duration	104 Seconds
Run User	SGP-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 75.2 1-Core 116 2-Core 234 78% 142 Pts	4-Core 402 8-Core 652 65% 527 Pts	64-Core 640 40% 640 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Quadro K620-$170 16,214 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 1098) 2GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.5891 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	11.8% Very poor	Lighting 15.5 Reflection 14.3 Parallax 10.5 13% 13.4 fps	MRender 11.6 Gravity 10.5 Splatting 14.5 10% 12.2 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 11.8% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 454GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	263% Outstanding	Read 2,194 Write 1,426 Mixed 1,509 378% 1,710 MB/s	4K Read 49.6 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 58 222% 81.5 MB/s	DQ Read 514 DQ Write 397 DQ Mixed 218 228% 377 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 263% Great: 283%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 654GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 192603144 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3955 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21218257 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3005 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3206 (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 65 57 589037603 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33808 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 85899345955 (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 -19950123088018 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34705812500158 (F2) Unknown 100 253 131882894562051	97.8% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 168 Mixed 152 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.43 118% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	74.3% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 23.7 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 22.6 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 90 44% 90 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 95%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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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 $273	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 $168	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