Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 97% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 83% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 81%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	119% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	136% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Oct 23 '17 at 18:46
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (62^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, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	81% Excellent	Memory 84.8 1-Core 116 2-Core 219 79% 140 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 642 65% 529 Pts	64-Core 650 40% 650 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2862 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 157 Reflection 195 Parallax 188 128% 180 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 178 Splatting 127 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 157GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Read 1,543 Write 425 Mixed 557 182% 842 MB/s	4K Read 38.9 4K Write 67.9 4K Mixed 17.9 118% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 413 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 42.8 105% 225 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 144%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 22GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3937081 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 135875585380935 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 930 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 149 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 35 42 25772556323 (C2) HDA temperature 35 42 25772556323 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3937081 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3937081 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3937081 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 51539607553 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4888 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3365 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3365 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3782 (F4) Unknown 99 99 3145758	67% Good	Read 504 Write 132 Mixed 176 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 91.7 4K Mixed 18.2 115% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 90.8 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 34.9 49% 89.3 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 67% Great: 75%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 862GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 171 2233 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6116 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 16513 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3212 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 440 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5675 (C2) HDA temperature 103 88 40 (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	110% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 191 Mixed 180 141% 187 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.31 120% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 109%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 157GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 55523176 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1703 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 106185836 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5116 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 994 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 328176 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 60 49 672530472 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 104 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11720 (C2) HDA temperature 40 51 38654705704 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 633 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -125425929940984 (F1) Unknown 100 253 36637998549 (F2) Unknown 100 253 409051335159	80.5% Excellent	Read 115 Write 164 Mixed 133 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 5.41 4K Mixed 0.5 178% 2.15 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$154 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.8% Good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 21.6 70% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.7 SC Write 26.8 SC Mixed 21.1 61% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 72.1 56% 72.1 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 113%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 - $191

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,213x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	472x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	295x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	481x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	199x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	148x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $706

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) $35	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