Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.36% 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	195% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

System	Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	2.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '17 at 17:18
Run Duration	428 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing below expectations (37^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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 93.9 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 783 76% 627 Pts	64-Core 782 48% 782 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.7% 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.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4627 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.36% Terrible	Lighting 7.7 Reflection 11.3 Parallax 7.53 6% 8.85 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 6.67 Splatting 15.9 10% 11 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.36% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 212GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	195% Outstanding	Read 2,008 Write 286 Mixed 906 231% 1,067 MB/s	4K Read 48.9 4K Write 184 4K Mixed 53.4 240% 95.3 MB/s	DQ Read 951 DQ Write 201 DQ Mixed 190 239% 447 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 195% Great: 283%
Seagate ST6000DM 001-1XY17Z 6TB 66 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	70.5% Very good	Read 156 Write 89.2 Mixed 114 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 0.38 136% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 70.5% Great: 112%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 1.5TB free Firmware: AR15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 101708568 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 114 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 30296997929 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4583 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 113 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 62 52 672727078 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2670 (C2) HDA temperature 38 48 98784247846 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 116 99 101708568 (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 103607496085671 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34685092243 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28943032855
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 958GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 180 7758 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 306 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11746 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 301 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 168 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3368 (C2) HDA temperature 114 103 38 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	56.3% Above average	Read 100 Write 95.8 Mixed 61.8 64% 85.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.3 4K Mixed 0.27 103% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56.3% Great: 100%
WD Purple 4TB (2014)-$73 8,426 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 725GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 176 7866 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 305 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12375 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 299 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 160 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 174 (C2) HDA temperature 112 105 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	60% Good	Read 104 Write 105 Mixed 79.9 72% 96.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.25 94% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 100%
WD Purple 3TB (2014)-$81 6,631 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 534GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 178 5883 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 558 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19310 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 545 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 285 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 276 (C2) HDA temperature 114 101 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	47% Average	Read 81.9 Write 81.5 Mixed 72.2 59% 78.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.25 96% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 85%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 66GB free Firmware: AR17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 173672136 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 181 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 21545122645 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4859 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 190 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 9 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 52 622395429 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4486 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5259 (C2) HDA temperature 37 48 94489280549 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 99 173672136 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -20392504717100 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18398682553 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40686215601
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 63GB free Firmware: AR17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 157839152 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 210 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 30318398 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5942 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 219 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 49 689504296 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 7756 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8948 (C2) HDA temperature 40 51 85899345960 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 157839152 (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 7816840484193 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15695026305 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8193952690
Poor: 21% Great: 87%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 62GB free Firmware: AR15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	38.7% Below average	Read 73.7 Write 58.9 Mixed 53.1 46% 61.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 7.99 4K Mixed 0.64 244% 3.07 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 87%
Seagate Archive HDD 8TB (2015)-$130 2,225 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 52GB free Firmware: AR17 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	34.5% Below average	Read 36.6 Write 81 Mixed 42.1 40% 53.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 7.86 4K Mixed 0.72 264% 3.17 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 34.5% Great: 87%
WD Purple 4TB (2014)-$73 8,426 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 49GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	44.8% Average	Read 81.2 Write 74.5 Mixed 73.7 58% 76.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.18 70% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 44.8% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x16GB 9,797 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	MC Read 30 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 26.5 84% 29.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 26.5 76% 26.7 GB/s	Latency 60.1 66% 60.1 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 95%

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Gaming 62%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 49%

Yacht

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI - $129

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	599x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	572x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	159x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	261x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	154x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	146x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	108x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	58x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	43x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $485

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