Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (92nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 8 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.9% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160425
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Sep 05 '16 at 18:15
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing way above expectations (92^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 126 2-Core 255 88% 158 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 700 68% 561 Pts	64-Core 654 40% 654 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.6909 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 117 Parallax 96.9 96% 110 fps	MRender 98.3 Gravity 103 Splatting 99.7 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 890GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 2481 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 116 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 101 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 57 (B5) Unknown 100 100 46499 (B7) Unknown 252 252 0 (B8) Unknown 252 252 0 (BA) Unknown 252 252 0 (BB) vendor-specific 252 252 0 (BC) Unknown 252 252 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 59 176094773276 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 4261 (C2) HDA temperature 64 59 176094773276 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 55	63.3% Good	Read 109 Write 112 Mixed 107 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.39 96% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 59%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 807GB free (System drive) Firmware: SM36 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 7500176 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 67 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7598921 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 246 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 67 (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 54 706019363 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3386 (C2) HDA temperature 35 46 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 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	62.9% Good	Read 108 Write 109 Mixed 110 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 5.78 4K Mixed 0.59 208% 2.4 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 65%
WD My Passport 0834 1TB 198 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 664GB free, PID 0834 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	40.5% Average	Read 95.6 Write 96.6 Mixed 94.8 124% 95.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 40.5% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	77.5% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 24.4 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 24 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 85%

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-Gaming 5 - $120

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	180x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	134x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	62x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	54x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	53x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	21x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	16x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	20x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	16x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $581

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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