Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 95.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	100% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	78% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	8.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151020
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 23:54
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	19%

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PC Performing as expected (45^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 way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.3% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 140 2-Core 281 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 512 8-Core 778 80% 645 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 151 Parallax 121 104% 133 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 130 Splatting 103 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 146GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1949 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 423 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 68 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1980752485	87.9% Excellent	Read 496 Write 399 Mixed 419 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 45.4 4K Mixed 40.1 117% 37.6 MB/s	DQ Read 28.7 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 125 102% 138 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 131%
ST31000524AS 240GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 14GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5316 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1308 (AB) Unknown 100 100 80968528 (AE) Unknown 100 100 72 (BE) vendor-specific 100 100 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 145 (D2) Unknown 100 100 4 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 96 96 96 (F1) Unknown 100 100 7805 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9030 (F9) Unknown 100 100 534960131	78% Very good	Read 495 Write 480 Mixed 495 110% 490 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 53.8 4K Mixed 11.5 72% 28.1 MB/s	DQ Read 20.1 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 72.5 88% 144 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 102%
OCZ-VECTOR180 1TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 447GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 4899262 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4360 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 4409938754 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8762 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3005 (B7) Unknown 97 97 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032839 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 504561694 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 34359738398 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 22 4899262 (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 113515985651114 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1749629040 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3360832463	66% Good	Read 113 Write 117 Mixed 99.7 82% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.56 116% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 66%
WD easystore 25FB 8TB 7,734 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 7TB free, PID 25fb Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	74.8% Very good	Read 177 Write 163 Mixed 148 205% 162 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 4.36 4K Mixed 0.59 172% 2.02 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 86%

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 @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	37.9% Below average	MC Read 10.9 MC Write 13.9 MC Mixed 10.6 34% 11.8 GB/s	SC Read 10.1 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 12.1 35% 12.4 GB/s	Latency 55.3 72% 55.3 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 37.9% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,083x
Core i5-6600KIntel $88Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	651x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	311x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	381x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	248x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	245x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	70x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $627

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

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