Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	109% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161124
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '18 at 02:24
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 143 2-Core 286 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 552 8-Core 785 84% 669 Pts	64-Core 788 49% 788 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Gigabyte(1458 367B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1707 MHz, MLim: 1826 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.9% Good	Lighting 82.1 Reflection 80.9 Parallax 71.7 67% 78.2 fps	MRender 77.5 Gravity 73.9 Splatting 64.5 58% 72 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 363GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5978 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 438 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 49 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10850820802	109% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 410 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 45 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 38.9 172% 62.3 MB/s	DQ Read 286 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 28.2 88% 190 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 134%
WD Black 5TB (2015)-$71 7,245 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 185 100 9716 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1211 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13065 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 976 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 74 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 1137 (C2) HDA temperature 116 105 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 458 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	98% Outstanding	MC Read 37.9 MC Write 37.5 MC Mixed 27.5 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 22.5 SC Write 38.6 SC Mixed 31 88% 30.7 GB/s	Latency 49.3 81% 49.3 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 109%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	662x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	147x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	169x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	157x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	129x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	59x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	36x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $39Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	25x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $790

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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