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 as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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	110% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

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	26.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170706
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 24 '17 at 04:53
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 96 1-Core 139 2-Core 270 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 451 8-Core 758 74% 604 Pts	64-Core 771 48% 771 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6797) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 3002 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 188 Reflection 206 Parallax 172 153% 189 fps	Gravity 184 Splatting 127 134% 155 fps
Poor: 109% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5508 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 699 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 163 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39232256600	110% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 395 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 48.2 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 46.5 190% 67.7 MB/s	DQ Read 59.5 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 98.5 96% 145 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 133%
Adata Premier SP550 120GB-$45 22,057 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 28GB free Firmware: O1230C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^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 100 100 338 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 813 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 107 (A3) Unknown 100 100 45 (A4) Unknown 100 100 40304 (A5) Unknown 100 100 51 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 66 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 86 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 33 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 99705 (F2) Unknown 100 100 40774 (F5) Unknown 100 100 80608	65.5% Good	Read 471 Write 186 Mixed 237 65% 298 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 61.8 4K Mixed 21.6 104% 37.4 MB/s	DQ Read 29.3 DQ Write 162 DQ Mixed 22.4 39% 71.3 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 89 72 230072875 (03) Spinup time 91 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 20822 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1296 (07) Seek error rate 41 39 11068172152050 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14808 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 136 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 98 98 2 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 65535 (BC) Unknown 100 95 253406937157 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 71 30 80939147001885 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39120 (C2) HDA temperature 29 70 60129542173 (C5) Current pending sector count 40 29 9856 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 40 29 9856 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -59669980639798 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17350152560 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13435223936	59.9% Above average	Read 104 Write 105 Mixed 104 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.22 82% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 412GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 111 97 7425 (04) Start/Stop count 64 64 36672 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 50 50 37002 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 89 89 11225 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1467 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 2768329 (C2) HDA temperature 118 77 29 (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 50 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	49.3% Average	Read 84.8 Write 86.6 Mixed 78.3 63% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.29 87% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 76,101 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	MC Read 34.3 MC Write 37.5 MC Mixed 29.1 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 21.1 SC Write 40.9 SC Mixed 29.4 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 106%

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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 $45Bench 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 $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