Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	102% 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	102% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	5.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151020
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 01:06
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^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)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 141 2-Core 273 95% 170 Pts	4-Core 526 8-Core 779 81% 652 Pts	64-Core 772 48% 772 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.8% 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 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (56^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 133 Reflection 148 Parallax 124 108% 135 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 128 Splatting 107 93% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% 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 as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1950 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 426 (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 1997749574	115% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 407 Mixed 414 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 99.3 4K Mixed 49.3 179% 63.4 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 129 149% 259 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 131%
ST31000524AS 240GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 18GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^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 1310 (AB) Unknown 100 100 80968528 (AE) Unknown 100 100 72 (BE) vendor-specific 100 100 28 (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 7819 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9043 (F9) Unknown 100 100 535589334	102% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 475 Mixed 492 109% 490 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 24.6 127% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 341 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 79.7 133% 256 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 102% 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 106 99 11113622 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4362 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 4409945163 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8763 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3007 (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 72 51 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 28 49 34359738396 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 22 11113622 (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 105450037069233 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1658323676 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3385326216	65.7% Good	Read 112 Write 117 Mixed 105 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.42 110% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 65.7% 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 (74^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Read 182 Write 164 Mixed 151 209% 166 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 4.26 4K Mixed 0.61 170% 2 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 1x8GB 8,400 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	57.7% Above average	MC Read 20.7 MC Write 20.1 MC Mixed 16.6 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 21.5 SC Mixed 18.8 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 57.7% Great: 57%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 - $169

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,078x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	645x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	308x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	380x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	247x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	243x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	71x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

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 $40	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