Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 52% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	83.1% 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	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 (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 TH
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150904
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 23 '17 at 08:13
Run Duration	367 Seconds
Run User	JPN-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 134 2-Core 265 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 730 74% 601 Pts	64-Core 728 45% 728 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	63.4% Good	Lighting 81.7 Reflection 79.3 Parallax 78.7 67% 79.9 fps	MRender 77.1 Gravity 71 Splatting 64.5 57% 70.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 176 100 176 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 809 (A6) Unknown 100 100 84 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 135 (A9) Unknown 100 100 34 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 123 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 53 100 261993005103 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 21600 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9896 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9260	83.1% Excellent	Read 509 Write 362 Mixed 415 95% 428 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 3.97 108% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 202 DQ Write 301 DQ Mixed 26 83% 176 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 86%
Samsung HD321HJ 320GB 5,512 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 894GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3130 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5649 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 27053 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5603 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 64 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 67 63 555483169 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 43743 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	107% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 184 Mixed 174 137% 182 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 6.11 4K Mixed 0.7 220% 2.5 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 64%
Samsung HD321KJ 320GB-$42 12,070 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 894GB free Firmware: CP100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 3200 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15412 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 11 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20202 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7975 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 327680 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 54 35 (C2) HDA temperature 133 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 287777 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 11 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 138	104% Outstanding	Read 191 Write 171 Mixed 167 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 4.45 4K Mixed 0.68 185% 1.93 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 43%
Samsung HD321HJ 320GB 5,512 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 894GB free Firmware: 1AC01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 92 92 3200 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5649 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 27055 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 5603 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 488439837 (C2) HDA temperature 66 56 572325922 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 130532 (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 100 100 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	102% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 171 Mixed 170 132% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 3.35 4K Mixed 0.75 176% 1.61 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 64%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2011)-$75 18,569 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 668GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 128 116 4575 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1415 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25305 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1308 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1140 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 141 141 178805 (C2) HDA temperature 107 89 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	52.9% Above average	Read 91.4 Write 92.7 Mixed 92.5 70% 92.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.2 77% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 63%
Toshiba MK5075GSX 500GB-$127 6,562 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 465GB free Firmware: GT001U Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 701 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 11636 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 16696 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2563 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 228003 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 244813594663 (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 2 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8240 (DE) Loaded hours 88 88 5199 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 329 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	40% Average	Read 67.6 Write 71.7 Mixed 69.2 52% 69.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.2 69% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 47%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 442GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 168 2225 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 971 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6122 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 804 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 948 (C2) HDA temperature 96 88 47 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	84.4% Excellent	Read 147 Write 147 Mixed 139 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.62 4K Mixed 0.34 123% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 109%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 335GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 83 83 6060 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 7705 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8658 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1202 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 59 589430819 (C2) HDA temperature 64 54 606208036 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2256381 (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 100 100 2 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	45.3% Average	Read 77.8 Write 80 Mixed 79.8 60% 79.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.35 86% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 45.3% Great: 59%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 228GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 167 2133 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 920 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6137 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 804 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 896 (C2) HDA temperature 97 88 46 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	90.1% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 149 Mixed 145 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.32 4K Mixed 0.25 96% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.1% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 212GB free Firmware: SC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 206106720 (03) Spinup time 92 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2915 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 59 52 317885771828 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15188 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 740 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 86 3427436200749 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 38 1332197654573 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 48 48 104688 (C2) HDA temperature 45 62 34359738413 (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 79233556684577 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17444858131 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7584020883	53.2% Above average	Read 75.2 Write 108 Mixed 74.2 64% 85.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 7.9 4K Mixed 0.37 208% 2.92 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 53.2% Great: 113%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 197GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 63 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 76 68 7384 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2560 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 17451 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2530 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 49 219044053037 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 9237 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2579	50.6% Above average	Read 90.4 Write 86 Mixed 86.9 66% 87.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.41 83% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 75%
Samsung HD502IJ 500GB-$40 25,285 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 31GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 88 88 4540 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9192 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 37295 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 91 91 9005 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 56 589496355 (C2) HDA temperature 63 53 623050789 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 422 (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 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	29.5% Poor	Read 49.9 Write 52.6 Mixed 49 38% 50.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.43 109% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	73.6% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 22.7 74% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 28.8 SC Mixed 22.7 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 95%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5 TH-CF

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	146x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	24x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	23x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	23x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	15x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	12x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	11x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	10x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 4x8GBHyperX $165Bench 92%, 7,179 samples	8x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	6x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	6x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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