Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	74.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 16 '18 at 11:30
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 95.7 1-Core 114 2-Core 217 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 642 66% 531 Pts	64-Core 642 40% 642 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 138 Parallax 126 106% 132 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 129 Splatting 97.1 90% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 131 100 131 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 725 (A6) Unknown 100 100 267 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 319 (A9) Unknown 100 100 28 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 299 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 100 206158430238 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 10 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 24542 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10099 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8845	74.3% Very good	Read 488 Write 399 Mixed 445 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 80.8 4K Mixed 5 88% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 33.8 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 4.92 43% 93.7 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 74.3% Great: 78%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 1TB-$50 17,310 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 352GB free Firmware: CV27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 36695000 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 728 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 68272634 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8396 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 728 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 76 76 24 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 538968096 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 728 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 77309411360 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	93.9% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 158 Mixed 176 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.28 88% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 119%
WD VelociRaptor 500GB-$62 8,133 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 306GB free Firmware: 04.06A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 193 190 3325 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6186 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 17771 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1588 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6147 (C2) HDA temperature 114 98 36 (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	97.8% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 170 Mixed 155 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.69 4K Write 4.36 4K Mixed 0.37 192% 2.14 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x4GB 1,595 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 41.8 MC Mixed 31.8 106% 37.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 39.9 SC Mixed 27.4 83% 29.2 GB/s	Latency 54.9 73% 54.9 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 113%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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	305x

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 $109Bench 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	112x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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