Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	108% 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	60.4% 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150724
Uptime	7.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '17 at 10:57
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	86% Excellent	Memory 89 1-Core 136 2-Core 269 91% 165 Pts	4-Core 493 8-Core 411 62% 452 Pts	64-Core 502 31% 502 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2677 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 152 Parallax 130 115% 141 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 136 Splatting 114 100% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 130GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Read 369 Write 287 Mixed 474 84% 376 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 25.4 150% 63.9 MB/s	DQ Read 256 DQ Write 488 DQ Mixed 95.8 151% 280 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 157%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11957220 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 117080808493413 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 780 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 19 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 48 47247786013 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 47247786013 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11957220 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11957220 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11957220 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 25769803777 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8309 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4804 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4804 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4398 (F4) Unknown 98 98 4718664	60.4% Good	Read 439 Write 115 Mixed 156 51% 237 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 14.2 111% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 63.8 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 28.6 40% 70.7 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 73%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$40 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 708GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 169 2216 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 776 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4454 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 776 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 762 (C2) HDA temperature 109 101 34 (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	92.9% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 159 Mixed 145 118% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.48 4K Mixed 0.3 117% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F4-2400C15-4GRR 0215 CMK8GX4M2A2133C13 0420 F4-2400C15-4GRR 0215 CMK8GX4M2A2133C13 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	69.9% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 23 70% 24.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 26.8 SC Mixed 22.5 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 77%

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Gaming 61%

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Desktop 82%

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Workstation 48%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170-HD3 - $113

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	483x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	195x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	237x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	179x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	118x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	74x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	55x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	50x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	58x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	49x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	46x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $506

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $500	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16