Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	93.1% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5 (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170706
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 26 '17 at 23:30
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 118 2-Core 226 85% 147 Pts	4-Core 449 8-Core 652 69% 551 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6288) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 123 Reflection 128 Parallax 103 100% 118 fps	Gravity 137 Splatting 109 107% 123 fps
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 178GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5559 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 107 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 66 58 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3984542874	122% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 501 Mixed 510 114% 512 MB/s	4K Read 37.5 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 49.5 179% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 329 DQ Mixed 27.2 104% 230 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 124%
OCZ ARC 100 120GB-$82 4,735 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 99GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13220 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 889 (AB) Unknown 100 100 39892048 (AE) Unknown 100 100 353 (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 36 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 935 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1076 (F9) Unknown 100 100 46798752	81.3% Excellent	Read 454 Write 380 Mixed 407 92% 414 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 13.7 113% 47.4 MB/s	DQ Read 28 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 15.2 60% 123 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 98%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13554 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 803 (B1) Unknown 95 95 86 (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 58 48 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 402 (F1) Unknown 99 99 193366767200	93.1% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 411 Mixed 419 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 93.4 4K Mixed 26.9 150% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 43.7 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 26.7 34% 57.6 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 124%
Seagate ST9500620NS 500GB 673 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 363GB free Firmware: AA03 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 63 100965132 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6822 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8380351 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13203 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 867 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032836 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 53 44 30854742063 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 505 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6952 (C2) HDA temperature 47 56 85899345967 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 116 99 100965132 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 3 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 110848810947632 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1121667689 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3363004424	55.7% Above average	Read 103 Write 91 Mixed 86.6 70% 93.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.6 138% 1.16 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	99.5% Outstanding	MC Read 38.2 MC Write 40.3 MC Mixed 27.4 101% 35.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 39.1 SC Mixed 29.4 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 51.7 77% 51.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	103x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	52x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	27x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	37x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	14x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	11x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	12x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	9x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	8x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $500

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 $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