Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	74.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 8 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3 (all builds)
Memory	17.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150728
Uptime	7.3 Days
Run Date	Jul 20 '17 at 14:59
Run Duration	228 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	Memory 79.5 1-Core 98.7 2-Core 210 73% 129 Pts	4-Core 384 8-Core 614 61% 499 Pts	64-Core 609 38% 609 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.9% Very good	Lighting 90.5 Reflection 115 Parallax 110 74% 105 fps	MRender 92.6 Gravity 97.1 Splatting 93.1 77% 94.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 146785044 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 85650237827446 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 164 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 97 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 46 68722491417 (C2) HDA temperature 25 46 68722491417 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 146785044 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 146785044 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 146785044 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 94489280513 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27981 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15770 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15770 (F2) Unknown 0 0 21046 (F4) Unknown 97 97 7798899	69.9% Good	Read 471 Write 210 Mixed 254 68% 311 MB/s	4K Read 20.2 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 16.6 106% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 56 73% 131 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 85%
WD WD20EARS-22MVWB0 2TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 1.5TB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 163 6300 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9340 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23034 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2695 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 732 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 102 102 296588 (C2) HDA temperature 123 94 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 77 1838 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	54.8% Above average	Read 100 Write 90.4 Mixed 100 73% 96.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.2 79% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 62%
WD WD20EARS-22MVWB0 2TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 888GB free Firmware: 51.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 186 167 16282 (03) Spinup time 174 163 6283 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6649 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24691 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2706 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 701 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 306795 (C2) HDA temperature 123 90 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 6 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 1696 (C8) Write error rate 199 197 308	56.2% Above average	Read 109 Write 87 Mixed 93.3 73% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.15 38% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 62%
WD WD20EZRZ-00Z5HB0 2TB 415 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 51GB free Firmware: 80.0 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 178 176 4083 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 48 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4799 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 183 183 53092 (C2) HDA temperature 120 94 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	48.7% Average	Read 89.9 Write 79.5 Mixed 81.2 63% 83.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.23 82% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 78.CAGM6.AF30B 4x8GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	68.9% Good	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 23 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 19.7 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 81.4 49% 81.4 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 72%

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-H170-Gaming 3

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	305x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	248x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	173x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	190x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	153x
GTX 960Nvidia $198Bench 33%, 440,282 samples	66x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	50x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	31x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	49x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	32x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $323

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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