Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (29th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 71 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 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 90.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	114% 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	69.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 10 '17 at 12:26
Run Duration	964 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing below expectations (29^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-$163 588,978 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 (97^th percentile)	90.1% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 130 2-Core 258 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 475 8-Core 669 72% 572 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$350 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2877 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	114% Outstanding	Lighting 159 Reflection 184 Parallax 162 130% 168 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 140 Splatting 103 95% 118 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 72GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 29110 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 209 (B1) Unknown 97 97 26 (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 74 49 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 193 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17737063567	73.1% Very good	Read 508 Write 351 Mixed 360 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 35.4 4K Mixed 20.2 90% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 78.2 DQ Mixed 40.7 46% 78.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 73.1% Great: 126%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 40GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 16 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 25465 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 214 (B1) Unknown 79 79 766 (B3) Unknown 99 99 16 (B5) Unknown 99 99 16 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 16 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 52 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 183 (F1) Unknown 99 99 45731676492	69.1% Good	Read 513 Write 275 Mixed 281 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 48.3 4K Mixed 18.7 88% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 45.3 56% 98.6 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 69.1% Great: 110%
OCZ AGILITY3 480GB 804 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 18GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4057914 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 111428631565442 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 268 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 239 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4057914 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4057914 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4057914 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11063 (EA) Unknown 0 0 10605 (F1) Unknown 0 0 10605 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18653	34.9% Below average	Read 257 Write 118 Mixed 128 37% 168 MB/s	4K Read 18.8 4K Write 9.61 4K Mixed 10.8 47% 13.1 MB/s	DQ Read 102 DQ Write 42.1 DQ Mixed 27.4 32% 57.1 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 41%
WD WD6000HLHX-01JJPV0 600GB 6,863 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 56GB free Firmware: 04.05G04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 233 233 3308 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11490 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 24 24 55970 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 757 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 448 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11041 (C2) HDA temperature 118 95 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 125 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 199 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 1 0	49.6% Average	Read 112 Write 60.3 Mixed 111 72% 94.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.47 134% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 80%
HGST HDN 724040ALE640 4TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 150GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	20.4% Poor	Read 38.8 Write 40.8 Mixed 12.5 37% 30.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.16 71% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 20.4% Great: 61%
HGST HDN 724040ALE640 4TB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 102GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	20.8% Poor	Read 39.6 Write 40.6 Mixed 7.13 34% 29.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.21 77% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 20.8% Great: 61%
WDC WD40 EURX-64WRWY0 4TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 86GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	21.5% Poor	Read 38.3 Write 39.2 Mixed 38.4 50% 38.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.35 4K Mixed 0.24 90% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 21.5% Great: 42%
WDC WD50 00AAKS-22YGA0 500GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 18GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	4.18% Terrible	Read 20.9 Write 1.15 Mixed 2.68 7% 8.24 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.27 4K Mixed 0.29 20% 0.29 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 4.18% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	76.5% Very good	MC Read 27.4 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.1 77% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 23.6 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 104%

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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 $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	2,259x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	478x
Core i7-7700KIntel $229Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	301x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	491x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	397x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $350Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	200x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	181x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	151x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	119x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	126x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	124x
Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 87%, 4,420 samples	97x

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Total price: $774

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Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $353