Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	68.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 04 '18 at 04:19
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 89.7 1-Core 133 2-Core 256 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 710 75% 601 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX Titan Black-$1,000 3,504 User benchmarks, average bench 51% EVGA(3842 3790) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1202 MHz, MLim: 1750 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.31 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 46% Great: 55%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WDS200T2B0B-00YS70 2TB 1,239 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 198 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 103 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1376269 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 85 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1494 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 65 279174447148 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8589934594 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 444 (EA) Unknown 100 100 689 (F1) Unknown 253 253 669 (F2) Unknown 253 253 514 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	68.5% Good	Read 489 Write 339 Mixed 339 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 10.3 93% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 25.9 DQ Write 64.1 DQ Mixed 11.8 18% 33.9 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 119%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$91 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 910GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 136 3983 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5158 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6010 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2575 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 274 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13064 (C2) HDA temperature 118 109 25 (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 100 253 0	85% Excellent	Read 139 Write 157 Mixed 136 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.22 102% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 315GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 94911400 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6731 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15246519 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6557 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2644 (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 73 64 43437785115 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 185 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19756 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 -140737488355301 (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 -98432060486651 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7096388265 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4509321241	95.9% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 166 Mixed 159 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.31 87% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 112%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 292GB free Firmware: 03.03B03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 162 160 4891 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5351 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 6 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 35815 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2820 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 196611 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 31 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 257 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5348 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 31 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (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	48.9% Average	Read 92.1 Write 78 Mixed 78.6 62% 82.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.3 87% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 48.9% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$92 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 24.4 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.4 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 113%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	307x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	380x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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