Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.19% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	177% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Very high background CPU (62%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z170X-GAMING 3 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150901
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 30 '16 at 22:24
Run Duration	429 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	62%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 89.6 1-Core 122 2-Core 228 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 616 63% 511 Pts	64-Core 672 42% 672 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4364 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.19% Terrible	Lighting 7.63 Reflection 11 Parallax 7.47 6% 8.71 fps	MRender 8.81 Gravity 6.73 Splatting 15.7 9% 10.4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.19% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ RevoDrive 350 PCIe 480GB-$396 526 User benchmarks, average bench 139% 434GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.50 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 16671256 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 137335874263359 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 630 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 498 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 47 62 68723540015 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16671256 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16671256 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16671256 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33578 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16513 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16513 (F2) Unknown 0 0 11230	177% Outstanding	Read 1,657 Write 758 Mixed 968 248% 1,128 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 24.6 139% 54.9 MB/s	DQ Read 586 DQ Write 490 DQ Mixed 214 249% 430 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 172%
SanDisk Ultra II 240GB-$40 53,931 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 146GB free Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 2140 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 455 (A5) Unknown 100 100 691549176510 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 55 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 333 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 58 53 227634511914 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3444602569506 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 209 (EA) Unknown 100 100 888 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4525 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2972 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	74.2% Very good	Read 460 Write 205 Mixed 224 65% 297 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 73.1 4K Mixed 18.1 111% 41.2 MB/s	DQ Read 287 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 49.2 91% 182 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 917GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38061616 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2949 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 17623966 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13315 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1735 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 4295032839 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 48 589365283 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2711 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 36424 (C2) HDA temperature 35 52 60129542179 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 43 715 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 118425133263277 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9381414273 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14278988683	99.6% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 162 Mixed 162 128% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.2 64% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 190GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 58767856 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 338 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18852235 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3670 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 328 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 60 589365283 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 152 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18567 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 42949672995 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 196 38 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -97362613630531 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5043808889 (F2) Unknown 100 253 118407832645	87.8% Excellent	Read 153 Write 154 Mixed 147 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.14 62% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 112%
H/W RAID 5 4TB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2.5TB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	37.6% Below average	Read 105 Write 101 Mixed 55.8 107% 87.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.04 4K Write 0.09 4K Mixed 0.04 4% 0.05 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 37.6% Great: 68%
USB DISK 2.0 16GB 1,213 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 11GB free, PID 9917 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	4.27% Terrible	Read 14.3 Write 3.21 Mixed 4.6 7% 7.38 MB/s	4K Read 6.25 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.006 24% 2.09 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.27% Great: 10%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$39 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 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	69.8% Good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 22 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 15 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 19.3 56% 19.7 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 110%

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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	1,083x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 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 $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	106x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	62x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $630

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $542	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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16