Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.71% 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	221% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-Designare
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare-CF (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161122
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '17 at 13:34
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 96.9 1-Core 117 2-Core 233 85% 149 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 458 61% 458 Pts	64-Core 454 28% 454 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 85%

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. 21.20.16.4550 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.71% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 12 Parallax 7.81 7% 9.28 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 6.93 Splatting 16.5 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.71% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 188GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	221% Outstanding	Read 2,373 Write 1,004 Mixed 1,246 338% 1,541 MB/s	4K Read 48.2 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 34.9 190% 73.5 MB/s	DQ Read 51.3 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 23.6 70% 140 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 221% Great: 236%
Plextor M6 Pro 128GB-$161 708 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 89GB free Firmware: 1.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1328 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1538 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 187 (AE) Unknown 100 100 77 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 192453 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 912 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 10 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 77 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 24056 (F1) Unknown 100 100 630619 (F2) Unknown 100 100 261323	95.9% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 312 Mixed 376 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 96.4 4K Mixed 31.9 140% 53.4 MB/s	DQ Read 337 DQ Write 307 DQ Mixed 83.3 128% 242 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 103%
Crucial M4 64GB-$92 7,336 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 19GB free Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8246 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2771 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 93 93 233 (AE) Unknown 100 100 103 (B5) Unknown 100 100 9625096946756 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 50 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 334 (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 100 100 17 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 93 93 7 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	56.6% Above average	Read 484 Write 109 Mixed 178 56% 257 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 6.93 92% 38.7 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 89.4 DQ Mixed 7.54 33% 75.8 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 56.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C15 2x8GB 122 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 37.6 MC Write 42.4 MC Mixed 30.5 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 40.4 SC Mixed 27.7 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 117%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Designare-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	69x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	18x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	22x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	17x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	8x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	6x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	5x
840 Pro 256GBSamsung $190Bench 95%, 73,119 samples	3x

RAM
TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GBUnknownBench 82%, 74,390 samples	6x
TMA851U6AFR6N-UHSC Kingston 9905678-014.A00G Kingston 9905678-014.A00G Kingston 9905678-014.A00G 16GBUnknownBench 79%, 10 samples	5x
1x8GBUnknownBench 38%, 168,538 samples	4x

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Value: 101% - Outstanding

Total price: $470

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