Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 43% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 19 '17 at 21:00
Run Duration	151 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 88.5 1-Core 110 2-Core 215 79% 138 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 426 57% 425 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AE) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.8% Good	Lighting 77.7 Reflection 79.6 Parallax 65.9 63% 74.4 fps	MRender 71.2 Gravity 71.7 Splatting 72.4 59% 71.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ VERTEX 64GB 558 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 16GB free Firmware: 1.7 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 7 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 131 44 0 (0C) Power cycle count 132 4 0 (B8) Unknown 0 0 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 3 0 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 0 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 4 0 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 139 217 102911 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 207 212 131219 (C8) Write error rate 132 209 2117 (C9) Soft read error rate 18 85 2006 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 7 48 22 (CB) Run out cancel 186 146 21 (CC) Soft ECC correction 0 0 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 16 39 0 (CE) Flying height 11 0 0 (CF) Spin high current 182 2 0 (D0) Spin buzz 149 1 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 96 0 0 (D3) Unknown 0 0 0 (D4) Unknown 0 0 0 (D5) Unknown 0 0 0	29.7% Poor	Read 194 Write 142 Mixed 140 35% 159 MB/s	4K Read 18.3 4K Write 11.5 4K Mixed 7.38 43% 12.4 MB/s	DQ Read 19.8 DQ Write 12.2 DQ Mixed 6.74 8% 12.9 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 29.7% Great: 35%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 634GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 100 75395616 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 163 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 9813682 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 380 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 196 (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 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 54 572456994 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1153 (C2) HDA temperature 34 46 77309411362 (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 -66146791325355 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3476667350 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12467445101	86.4% Excellent	Read 131 Write 169 Mixed 125 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 5.47 4K Mixed 0.59 203% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 111%
WD My Passport 1TB 12,840 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 693GB free, PID 0748 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	43% Average	Read 102 Write 108 Mixed 72.8 119% 94.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.23 61% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 43% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT8G4DFD8213.M16FA 2x8GB 505 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	78.1% Very good	MC Read 28.4 MC Write 29.7 MC Mixed 25.2 79% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 24.2 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 69 58% 69 ns
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 79%

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Gaming 46%

Yacht

Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 37%

Jet ski

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170N-WIFI-CF

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	113x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	59x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	55x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	46x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	44x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	34x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	10x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 77%, 131,007 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	23x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $349

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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