Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.32% 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	80.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (24%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 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	Dec 07 '17 at 13:52
Run Duration	324 Seconds
Run User	THA-User
Background CPU	24%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 90.7 1-Core 131 2-Core 262 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 671 70% 559 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD FirePro W4100 1,020 User benchmarks, average bench 7% AMD(1002 2B1E) 2GB CLim: 630 MHz, MLim: 1000 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	7.32% Terrible	Lighting 8.4 Reflection 10.7 Parallax 10.6 7% 9.89 fps	MRender 9.43 Gravity 6.73 Splatting 12.9 8% 9.69 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.32% Great: 8%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Zotac ZTSSD-A4P-120G 120GB 495 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 48GB free Firmware: S9FM02.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3613 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2820 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 38 (AD) Unknown 100 100 77725856 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 30 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8433522	33.3% Below average	Read 275 Write 28.8 Mixed 185 36% 163 MB/s	4K Read 21.9 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 5.75 62% 22.9 MB/s	DQ Read 68.9 DQ Write 71.9 DQ Mixed 3.32 21% 48 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 33.3% Great: 67%
Transcend MTS800 M.2 128GB-$126 5,326 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1225G Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 798 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1561 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 106 (A3) Unknown 100 100 59 (A4) Unknown 100 100 371946 (A5) Unknown 100 100 270 (A6) Unknown 100 100 134 (A7) Unknown 100 100 182 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 94 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 2105 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 12191 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 424446 (F2) Unknown 100 100 338297 (F5) Unknown 100 100 743892	80.9% Excellent	Read 507 Write 197 Mixed 281 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 31.5 127% 48.9 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 65 91% 169 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 82%
SanDisk Z400s 128GB-$109 10,807 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 10GB free Firmware: Z2333000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 100 91 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1597 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 49 (A9) Unknown 100 100 188 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 143 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 44 100 279172874296 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 80 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1688 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1123 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1980	56% Above average	Read 360 Write 175 Mixed 233 56% 256 MB/s	4K Read 24.7 4K Write 82.5 4K Mixed 3.52 86% 36.9 MB/s	DQ Read 183 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 23.7 58% 122 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 71%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 266GB 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 93 93 373017 (03) Spinup time 180 173 4000 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3264 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 24 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6975 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2554 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 306 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 153817 (C2) HDA temperature 114 105 33 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 195 194 1947 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 195 194 1771 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 3551801	47% Average	Read 90 Write 73.4 Mixed 75.7 60% 79.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.19 87% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 84%
Seagate BUP Slim SL 1TB 4,641 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 16GB free Firmware: 0108 Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	40.9% Average	Read 65.1 Write 76.2 Mixed 58.7 50% 66.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.33 4K Write 4.12 4K Mixed 0.59 198% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 63%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 9,009 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 56GB free, PID a006 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	37.3% Below average	Read 92.6 Write 87.3 Mixed 63.9 102% 81.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.2 61% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 43%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 16GB 495 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 4GB free, PID 0743 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	6.69% Terrible	Read 21.8 Write 12.5 Mixed 7.43 16% 13.9 MB/s	4K Read 2.77 4K Write 0.05 4K Mixed 0.05 14% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 6.69% Great: 31%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 22.4 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 27.7 SC Mixed 23.3 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 66.2 60% 66.2 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 110%

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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 $109Bench 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: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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