Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.4% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	78.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	27.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 22 '16 at 02:43
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 89 1-Core 126 2-Core 236 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 665 68% 550 Pts	64-Core 694 43% 694 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B7) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 21.21.13.7254 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.4% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 108 Parallax 107 86% 107 fps	MRender 86.7 Gravity 93.7 Splatting 85.5 72% 88.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 62GB free Firmware: 1.0. Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	127% Outstanding	Read 679 Write 659 Mixed 668 150% 669 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 38.8 146% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 425 DQ Mixed 123 151% 259 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 127% Great: 133%
Ts128gms A370 128GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: N111 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 100 100 207 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 637 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 45 (A3) Unknown 100 100 24 (A4) Unknown 100 100 30149 (A5) Unknown 100 100 105 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 48 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 98 (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 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 61252 (F2) Unknown 100 100 49933 (F5) Unknown 100 100 120596	78.7% Very good	Read 486 Write 152 Mixed 233 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 31.3 137% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 59.5 80% 149 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 79%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 2400 2OZ 4x8GB 1,487 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.8% Very good	MC Read 25.7 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 23.2 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 72.8% Great: 107%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	356x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	277x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	138x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	84x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	77x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	48x
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 $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	77x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	32x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	28x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $727

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