Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	10.5% 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	72.5% 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.

System	Gigabyte Z170XP-SLI
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI (all builds)
Memory	14.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 02 '17 at 13:50
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	LVA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	91.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 145 2-Core 274 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 732 75% 606 Pts	64-Core 786 49% 786 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Gigabyte(1458 351A) 1GB CLim: 970 MHz, MLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	10.5% Very poor	Lighting 11.8 Reflection 14 Parallax 9.97 10% 11.9 fps	MRender 16.3 Gravity 12.3 Splatting 16 12% 14.9 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 10.5% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 246GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2432 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 204 (B1) Unknown 98 98 8 (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 75 48 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8529228067	91.4% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 269 Mixed 276 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 73 4K Mixed 32.5 145% 49.3 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 73.4 107% 204 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 123%
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB 1,293 User benchmarks, average bench 211% 116GB free Firmware: 400Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	262% Outstanding	Read 2,708 Write 735 Mixed 1,162 334% 1,535 MB/s	4K Read 57.4 4K Write 186 4K Mixed 62.4 265% 102 MB/s	DQ Read 704 DQ Write 606 DQ Mixed 263 304% 524 MB/s
Poor: 133% ↑ This bench: 262% Great: 273%
Adata XPG SX900 128GB-$103 6,500 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 6.0.3b Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10089071 (05) Reallocated sector count 57 57 38 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 112742891527952 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 647 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 48 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 53 64427982874 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10089071 (C4) Reallocation count 57 57 38 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10089071 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10089071 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 60 60 184683593729 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11627 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10427 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10427 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7809	72.5% Very good	Read 460 Write 142 Mixed 210 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 33.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 23 134% 52.6 MB/s	DQ Read 150 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 54.4 64% 111 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 82%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	78.1% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 24.3 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 30.4 SC Mixed 25.4 72% 25 GB/s	Latency 61.1 66% 61.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 80%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 62%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 49%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI - $129

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	601x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	574x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	160x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	262x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	155x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	146x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	110x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $539

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16