Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (36th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 64 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 79.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	47.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	58.1% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	10 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180111
Uptime	3.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '18 at 02:56
Run Duration	349 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing below expectations (36^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	79.5% Very good	Memory 85.2 1-Core 135 2-Core 228 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 398 8-Core 629 63% 513 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1568 MHz, MLim: 1853 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	47.7% Average	Lighting 59.5 Reflection 58.8 Parallax 56.8 48% 58.4 fps	MRender 54.5 Gravity 61.4 Splatting 54.3 46% 56.7 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 47.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 894GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 4929 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1771 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12890800198 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 17 (A8) Unknown 100 100 7 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 110 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 40 171799805977 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 47246475292 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2122 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2998 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2622 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1462 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	38% Below average	Read 501 Write 59.3 Mixed 105 47% 222 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 5.04 4K Mixed 3.91 52% 12.7 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 38% Great: 107%
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 11085692 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 -100356205834170 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1547 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 94 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 49 73017655322 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 73017655322 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11085692 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11085692 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11085692 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5190 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8305 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8305 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11947	58.1% Above average	Read 507 Write 166 Mixed 231 66% 301 MB/s	4K Read 17.6 4K Write 86.4 4K Mixed 11.5 87% 38.5 MB/s	DQ Read 25.3 DQ Write 93.3 DQ Mixed 8.81 21% 42.5 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 84%
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 11,776 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 3.5TB free Firmware: 9401 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	77.5% Very good	Read 141 Write 128 Mixed 73.3 84% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 4.63 4K Mixed 0.55 178% 1.98 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 87%
Toshiba DT01ACA300 3TB-$80 85,620 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: MX6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 131 131 34388443573 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2983 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 8261 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2819 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4087 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4087 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 210454511647 (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	96.1% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 155 Mixed 154 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.57 4K Mixed 0.18 55% 0.45 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 890GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 233411536 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3347 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 121807091 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8272 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2882 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 53 471269404 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 71947 (C2) HDA temperature 28 47 64424509468 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 136270722373625 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13273140208 (F2) Unknown 100 253 303709094106	74.6% Very good	Read 156 Write 104 Mixed 86 86% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.09 32% 0.27 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 112%
Samsung Flash Drive FIT 128GB 3,370 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 73GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	9.76% Terrible	Read 37.7 Write 0.97 Mixed 36.7 28% 25.1 MB/s	4K Read 3.32 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.77 75% 1.72 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 9.76% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$45 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.9% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 22 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 19.7 55% 19.4 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,233x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	475x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	484x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	394x
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 $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	118x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	125x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	96x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $643

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16