Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	168% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '17 at 03:37
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 94.3 1-Core 153 2-Core 306 101% 184 Pts	4-Core 610 8-Core 607 81% 608 Pts	64-Core 602 37% 602 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 2974) CLim: 1646 MHz, MLim: 1825 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 76.5 Reflection 79.5 Parallax 70.5 62% 75.5 fps	MRender 80.3 Gravity 71.6 Splatting 64.1 58% 72 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 480GB-$300 1,985 User benchmarks, average bench 144% 405GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TP Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 9415 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2079 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 775 (64) Unknown 100 100 5693568 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 124 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 43 (B2) Unknown 100 100 64 (B4) Unknown 100 100 19022 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 100 300648955938 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 9415 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 4346 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 9415 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4736 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4418 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5788 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 23107	168% Outstanding	Read 1,140 Write 991 Mixed 905 225% 1,012 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 20.3 153% 60.7 MB/s	DQ Read 478 DQ Write 327 DQ Mixed 17.1 117% 274 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 168% Great: 181%
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 140GB free Firmware: MU01.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th 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 4892 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1611 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 28 (A3) Unknown 100 100 323 (94) Unknown 100 100 88858 (95) Unknown 100 100 1285 (96) Unknown 100 100 1104 (97) Unknown 100 100 1252 (A4) Unknown 100 100 23205 (A5) Unknown 100 100 76 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 182 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 39741905240092 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 101684 (F2) Unknown 100 100 184996 (F5) Unknown 100 100 137054 (F6) Unknown 100 100 177716 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	81.2% Excellent	Read 498 Write 259 Mixed 271 75% 343 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 64.1 4K Mixed 25.6 117% 41 MB/s	DQ Read 282 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 43.7 84% 170 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 81.2% Great: 91%
Samsung PM830 128GB 13,767 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 12GB free Firmware: CXM02D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19460 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1722 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 358 (B2) Unknown 95 95 88 (B3) Unknown 95 95 176 (B4) Unknown 95 95 3856 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 34 (E8) Unknown 95 95 1928 (F1) Unknown 84 84 11843590648 (F2) Unknown 47 47 13431265686	73.6% Very good	Read 487 Write 230 Mixed 383 81% 367 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 83.7 4K Mixed 19.8 107% 42.6 MB/s	DQ Read 285 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 76.6 87% 154 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$33 44,469 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 180GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 207301972 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4306 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 194823256 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 37674 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1600 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 63 420937753 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 68719476761 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 26 207301972 (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 69539815531619 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1414631362 (F2) Unknown 100 253 342379948	69% Good	Read 122 Write 119 Mixed 110 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.64 135% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 68%
WD WD1600HLFS-60G6U2 160GB 3,337 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 144GB free Firmware: 04.04V04 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 191 190 3433 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1397 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 34191 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1298 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 525 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1397 (C2) HDA temperature 124 108 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 57 57 31510 (F1) Unknown 200 200 8620135465 (F2) Unknown 200 200 5175945644	66.2% Good	Read 112 Write 118 Mixed 97.5 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.67 162% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$170 3,887 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	89.2% Excellent	MC Read 31.7 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 28.8 90% 31.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.4 SC Write 34.8 SC Mixed 27.6 79% 27.6 GB/s	Latency 59 68% 59 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 89.2% Great: 89%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 - $135

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	346x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	268x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	134x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	47x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	46x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	75x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	31x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	28x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $599

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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