Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	130% 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	79% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	17.9 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 24 '17 at 01:19
Run Duration	116 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 86.2 1-Core 117 2-Core 217 80% 140 Pts	4-Core 381 8-Core 529 57% 455 Pts	64-Core 622 38% 622 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 203 Parallax 177 148% 187 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 177 Splatting 122 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Team L5 SSD 120GB 501 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1249 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 636 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 240 (A3) Unknown 100 100 30 (A4) Unknown 100 100 334880 (A5) Unknown 100 100 281 (A6) Unknown 100 100 111 (A7) Unknown 100 100 162 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 95 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 896 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 30 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 482050 (F2) Unknown 100 100 161810 (F5) Unknown 100 100 669760	79% Very good	Read 513 Write 147 Mixed 215 63% 292 MB/s	4K Read 27.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 30.8 136% 54 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 140 DQ Mixed 54.7 77% 144 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 82%
Hitachi HTS725032A9A364 320GB-$55 6,982 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 208GB free Firmware: PC3OCH0A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 157 100 111669149698 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 974 (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 85 85 6757 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 574 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 196608 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8 (BE) vendor-specific 73 52 521863195 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 983055 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 53 53 474681 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	51.9% Above average	Read 93.8 Write 87.2 Mixed 86.1 67% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.35 75% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 51.9% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2133 C14 Series 8502 2133 C14 Series 01BA 8GBF2X04HEEE35-12-K 01BA 8GBF2X04HEEE35-12-K 24GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	42% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 15.2 MC Mixed 12.6 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.4 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 12.7 36% 12.7 GB/s	Latency 71.1 56% 71.1 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 42% Great: 76%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 - $192

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	483x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	113x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	33x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	23x

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Total price: $960

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