Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.1% 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	103% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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 (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	18.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151020
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Aug 25 '16 at 07:19
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	MYS-User
Background CPU	62%

PC Performing as expected (60^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 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 94.2 1-Core 121 2-Core 226 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 632 66% 529 Pts	64-Core 672 42% 672 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6822 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 119 Parallax 118 92% 117 fps	MRender 97.4 Gravity 102 Splatting 94.6 80% 98.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 497 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 144 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 718 (AD) Unknown 100 100 983090 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 66 60 171800395810 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3785 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3200 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1195 (F4) Unknown 100 100 15 (F5) Unknown 100 100 50 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1069632	103% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 507 Mixed 508 114% 512 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 14 130% 55.6 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 14.2 95% 219 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 111%
WD WD2003FZEX-00Z4S 2TB 280 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 822GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 145 11641 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 378 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (10) Unknown 3 197 54906911770 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 369 (C2) HDA temperature 117 108 35 (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	85.7% Excellent	Read 151 Write 147 Mixed 146 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 3.19 4K Mixed 0.34 132% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 98%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 1,970 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 54GB free, PID 0212 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	18.7% Very poor	Read 38.6 Write 38.6 Mixed 20 40% 32.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 18.7% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GB-$165 7,179 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62.3% Good	MC Read 19 MC Write 24.3 MC Mixed 20 60% 21.1 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 20.4 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 59.3 67% 59.3 ns
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 118%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

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 $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	306x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	379x
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 $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