Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 81.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.4% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 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 (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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System	Gigabyte Z170-HD3P
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 15:36
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Memory 85.8 1-Core 127 2-Core 248 85% 154 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 664 66% 539 Pts	64-Core 630 39% 630 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 372.54 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.4% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 107 Parallax 92.7 87% 102 fps	MRender 86.4 Gravity 91 Splatting 90.6 73% 89.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD WD2500JS-55NCB1 250GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 233GB free Firmware: 10.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 6 (03) Spinup time 189 172 5533 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7514 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14867 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5141 (BE) vendor-specific 48 20 52 (C2) HDA temperature 98 70 52 (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	33% Below average	Read 56.5 Write 58.1 Mixed 57 43% 57.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.43 100% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 33% Great: 33%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 125GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 240181472 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1467 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 257394886 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14670 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 764 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 71 53 537919517 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 214 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10063 (C2) HDA temperature 29 47 30064771101 (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 35188667069532 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42390938575 (F2) Unknown 100 253 790460927624	77.9% Very good	Read 152 Write 120 Mixed 110 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.09 4K Write 0.64 4K Mixed 0.14 31% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBR2 2x8GB 3,888 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.7% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.8 73% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 21.2 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 86%

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Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3P - $113

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	822x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	559x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	276x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	265x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	146x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	77x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	56x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	104x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	90x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	76x

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