Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.28% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	70.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160311
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '16 at 18:35
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing below expectations (38^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 89.7 1-Core 133 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 733 74% 601 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.28% Terrible	Lighting 7.63 Reflection 11.2 Parallax 7.44 6% 8.75 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 6.6 Splatting 15.8 9% 10.8 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.28% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 210GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3443 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 486 (A5) Unknown 100 100 77334774007 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 18 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 42 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 38 163209936919 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1172542849297 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2008 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4862 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3895 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4847 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	70.5% Very good	Read 475 Write 311 Mixed 320 82% 369 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 62.1 4K Mixed 9.3 77% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 263 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 8.72 69% 161 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35971552 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 970 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 55 55 111679197038 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3510 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 464 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 4295033183 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 4849926177 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6023 (C2) HDA temperature 33 48 -140737488355295 (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 -128977867895383 (F1) Unknown 100 253 70238878838243 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12392462248534	52.1% Above average	Read 79.4 Write 102 Mixed 106 73% 95.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.21 69% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 113%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 467GB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199873272 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1681 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 49 48 1262741890898 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9256 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1525 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 38655295497 (BD) vendor-specific 84 84 16 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 4765909020 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7078 (C2) HDA temperature 28 44 -140737488355300 (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 78396038062592 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19122063409 (F2) Unknown 100 253 47388471555	41.5% Average	Read 82.4 Write 62.6 Mixed 77 56% 74 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 0.57 4K Mixed 0.14 38% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 96%
Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB-$154 3,810 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 277GB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^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 8706 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 471 (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 91 91 3791 (0A) Spinup retry count 109 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 471 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 525 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 223339479073 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 91 91 3737 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 199 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	61.7% Good	Read 120 Write 95 Mixed 96.6 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.2% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 22.3 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 27.3 SC Mixed 23.3 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 95%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,213x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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) $35	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