Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	66.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	59 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Feb 08 '18 at 01:23
Run Duration	448 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 85.7 1-Core 119 2-Core 241 83% 149 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 651 68% 545 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 2471) ≥ 4GB; ZT-P10810D-10P CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 185 Reflection 194 Parallax 197 150% 192 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 175 Splatting 117 110% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 203GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9984 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 91 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 70 64 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 52 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1160402687	84.9% Excellent	Read 378 Write 310 Mixed 313 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 39.1 4K Write 67 4K Mixed 33.5 138% 46.5 MB/s	DQ Read 268 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 123 114% 178 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB-$105 6,748 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 112GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41000WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 10031 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4337304051 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 31 (A8) Unknown 100 100 16 (A9) Unknown 100 100 995 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 92 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 60 257698562072 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1279903007018 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3692 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10847 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9176 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8086 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	66.3% Good	Read 488 Write 164 Mixed 236 65% 296 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 42.3 4K Mixed 17.7 84% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 44.4 92% 192 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 108%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 93GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9942 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 90 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 62 43 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 76 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4501871348	113% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 401 Mixed 413 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 45.1 4K Write 90.4 4K Mixed 48.6 178% 61.4 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 129 143% 243 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 131%
Asmt ASM1156-PM 8TB 166 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 6.5TB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 159 Mixed 160 122% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.49 119% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 103%
Asmt ASM1156-PM 4TB 470 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 3TB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 168 Mixed 139 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 100%
WD Gold 4TB (2016)-$95 4,829 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 3TB free Firmware: 01.01M02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 108 (03) Spinup time 253 253 17192517835 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 35 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6056 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4389 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4389 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 223339479078 (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 200 200 0	102% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 177 Mixed 157 128% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 3.5 4K Mixed 0.66 176% 1.69 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 111%
Seagate NAS HDD 3TB-$119 3,343 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 3TB free Firmware: SC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 42042232 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3110 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 4382923230 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 38314 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 402 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 454 (BE) vendor-specific 66 44 17786011682 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 308 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3111 (C2) HDA temperature 34 56 68719476770 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	77.7% Very good	Read 144 Write 127 Mixed 139 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.21 77% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 99%
Seagate NAS HDD 3TB-$119 3,343 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2.5TB free Firmware: SC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205717360 (03) Spinup time 95 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3918 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 29642763 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 38273 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 393 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 103 (BE) vendor-specific 69 44 9128706079 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 286 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3919 (C2) HDA temperature 31 56 55834574879 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	63.1% Good	Read 87 Write 133 Mixed 124 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.18 68% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 99%
ST8000DM 005-2EH112 8TB 5.5TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	85.9% Excellent	Read 194 Write 187 Mixed 119 207% 167 MB/s	4K Read 12.5 4K Write 4.57 4K Mixed 0.31 212% 5.79 MB/s

WDC WD40 EZRX-00SPEB0 4TB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 2.5TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	46.6% Average	Read 111 Write 111 Mixed 98.2 137% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.25 78% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 46.6% Great: 44%
WDC WD40 EZRZ-00WN9B0 4TB 9 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 2TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	43.9% Average	Read 107 Write 100 Mixed 72.6 116% 93.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.22 81% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 43.9% Great: 51%
ST4000DM 000-1F2168 4TB 62 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 1.5TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	49.7% Average	Read 123 Write 130 Mixed 104 153% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.18 44% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 59%
WDC WD40 EZRX-00SPEB0 4TB 32 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 1TB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	43.4% Average	Read 110 Write 97.5 Mixed 98.9 130% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.19 76% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 44%
WDC WD10 EADS-00M2B0 1TB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 925GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	40.1% Average	Read 95.4 Write 99 Mixed 57.9 105% 84.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.26 61% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 40%
WDC WD80 EZZX-11CSGA0 8TB 763GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42.2% Average	Read 98.2 Write 101 Mixed 99 129% 99.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.45 82% 1.06 MB/s

WDC WD10 01FALS-00E8B0 1TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 626GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	44% Average	Read 106 Write 98.1 Mixed 64 110% 89.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.37 93% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 44% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GB 10,311 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 24 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 23.1 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 154%

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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	2,226x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	474x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	483x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	390x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $67Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Total price: $636

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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