Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 94.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	112% 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	93.8% 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	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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170628
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '18 at 15:05
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 (100^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 266 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 737 77% 620 Pts	64-Core 735 46% 735 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6583) ≥ 4GB; EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC2 GAMING, 08G-P4-6583-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, iCX - 9 Thermal Sensors & LED G/P/M CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 158 Parallax 136 121% 147 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 143 Splatting 115 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 433GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 293 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 39 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 60 54 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 228127120	109% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 416 Mixed 420 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 44.1 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 48.1 181% 64.1 MB/s	DQ Read 47.1 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 27.5 62% 119 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 147GB free Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5063 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 235 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 51 (A8) Unknown 100 100 25 (A9) Unknown 100 100 558 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 44 188979675173 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 10 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 921 (F1) Unknown 253 253 689 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1222 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	106% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 486 Mixed 484 110% 491 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 29.2 142% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 300 DQ Mixed 63.5 115% 227 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 106GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5536 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 684 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 59 51 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8688482587	93.8% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 416 Mixed 421 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 43.8 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 26.8 151% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 46.1 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 26.4 34% 59.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 124%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 867GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 163 6558 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 237 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2814 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 237 (10) Unknown 0 200 17330930867 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 202 (C2) HDA temperature 103 97 47 (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	83.1% Excellent	Read 150 Write 140 Mixed 136 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.23 93% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 112%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 792GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 17 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9234 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2952 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13763 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 826 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 24 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 42 249109020716 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 209 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2986	79.3% Very good	Read 127 Write 149 Mixed 114 98% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.3 98% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 40.4 MC Mixed 31.1 102% 35.8 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 44.8 SC Mixed 30.6 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 101% 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	2,220x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	179x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	149x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 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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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $641

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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