Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.5% 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	68.8% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 04 '17 at 14:38
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 144 2-Core 283 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 795 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 800 50% 800 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3703) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 116 Parallax 95.6 92% 108 fps	MRender 97.7 Gravity 100 Splatting 101 82% 99.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 371GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 383 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 209 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 56 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5748224848	95% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 406 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 19.9 123% 50.3 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 20.4 99% 225 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 133%
Spcc Solid State Disk 240GB 15,968 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM22.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 323 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 180 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 501 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262161 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 98 98 128849018910 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1060	68.8% Good	Read 499 Write 435 Mixed 475 105% 470 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 46.9 4K Mixed 12.5 70% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 22 DQ Write 52.1 DQ Mixed 10.6 16% 28.2 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 99%
Sst-ts11 C 8TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0 Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	94% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 163 Mixed 156 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.8 4K Mixed 0.45 137% 1.37 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 94%
WD Black 4TB (2012)-$323 4,113 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 582GB free Firmware: 01.01L01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 156 138 11175 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2141 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2848 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 909 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 123 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2017 (C2) HDA temperature 109 97 43 (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	77.9% Very good	Read 134 Write 137 Mixed 112 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.6 147% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 93%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 238GB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 70 (03) Spinup time 136 136 34387722656 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1180 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 978 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 374 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1194 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1194 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 201864839205 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	62.6% Good	Read 113 Write 105 Mixed 97.1 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.21 96% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 107%
WD Black 4TB (2013)-$194 20,205 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 10GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 141 11283 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1938 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2267 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 781 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1867 (C2) HDA temperature 112 98 40 (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	78.3% Very good	Read 135 Write 138 Mixed 118 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.31 4K Mixed 0.22 90% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 98%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$560 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 38 MC Mixed 30.4 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 34.2 SC Mixed 30.9 77% 26.9 GB/s	Latency 51.1 78% 51.1 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 105%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-Gaming K3 - $170

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	400x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	363x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	143x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	203x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	171x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	114x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	42x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	30x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	45x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $619

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16