Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 99.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	114% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	14 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161020
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 19 '17 at 22:18
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (59^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)	99.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 143 2-Core 286 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 549 8-Core 799 84% 674 Pts	64-Core 799 49% 799 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1405 MHz, MLim: 1850 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 70% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 171GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1605 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1050 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 63 48 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 83 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7827071486	114% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 503 Mixed 505 114% 509 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 32.4 182% 69.1 MB/s	DQ Read 48.2 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 33.1 74% 142 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 85%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 128GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1001 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 509 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 64 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1119055285	99.6% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 30.3 171% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 48.9 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 99.6 71% 87.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 134%
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 56GB free Firmware: O1203AB Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^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 100 100 272 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1721 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 15 (A3) Unknown 100 100 640 (94) Unknown 100 100 39395 (95) Unknown 100 100 608 (96) Unknown 100 100 409 (97) Unknown 100 100 554 (A4) Unknown 100 100 39913 (A5) Unknown 100 100 278 (A6) Unknown 100 100 25 (A7) Unknown 100 100 32 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 163 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36417583382553 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 122010 (F2) Unknown 100 100 183341 (F5) Unknown 100 100 471472 (F6) Unknown 100 100 157580 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	77.6% Very good	Read 456 Write 251 Mixed 269 72% 325 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 64.6 4K Mixed 23.5 114% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 14.9 69% 158 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 95%
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 51GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1734 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1093 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21496987923 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 665 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 90 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 72 309239021607 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 335010201678 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1992 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2654 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2473 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2896 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	60.1% Good	Read 492 Write 224 Mixed 271 72% 329 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 46.9 4K Mixed 12.4 87% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 48.4 DQ Mixed 40.7 30% 39.9 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 104%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 354GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 171432312 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3066 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 4427996452 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2259 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 74 59 454098970 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 467 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21555 (C2) HDA temperature 26 41 51539607578 (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 -24958054948604 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34109589494 (F2) Unknown 100 253 92433677288	85.4% Excellent	Read 148 Write 150 Mixed 140 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.29 89% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.4% Great: 112%
SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 64GB-$72 6,221 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4GB free, PID 5580 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 252 Write 157 Mixed 143 216% 184 MB/s	4K Read 12.4 4K Write 10.9 4K Mixed 4.69 575% 9.33 MB/s	DQ Read 12.1 DQ Write 11.8 DQ Mixed 4.99 616% 9.64 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 18,693 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	MC Read 35.7 MC Write 38.3 MC Mixed 27.3 96% 33.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.4 SC Write 40.6 SC Mixed 29.5 82% 28.8 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 102%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 - $167

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	640x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	297x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	121x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	92x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	40x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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 $40	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