Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 91.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	93.6% 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	13.8 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 13 '17 at 03:22
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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)	91.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 122 2-Core 241 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 464 8-Core 656 70% 560 Pts	64-Core 651 40% 651 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6288) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 127 Parallax 97.9 102% 117 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 137 Splatting 111 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$190 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 276GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5417 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 88 (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 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3606348950	98.8% Outstanding	Read 526 Write 498 Mixed 514 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 37.1 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 26.9 149% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 38.1 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 26.1 35% 60.9 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 124%
OCZ ARC 100 120GB-$82 4,735 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 98GB 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 13086 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 871 (AB) Unknown 100 100 39892048 (AE) Unknown 100 100 349 (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 100 100 924 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1067 (F9) Unknown 100 100 46445762	80.8% Excellent	Read 451 Write 382 Mixed 404 92% 412 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 97.6 4K Mixed 14.9 110% 46.1 MB/s	DQ Read 28.2 DQ Write 328 DQ Mixed 14.7 60% 123 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 98%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 75GB 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 13411 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 785 (B1) Unknown 96 96 85 (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 99 397 (F1) Unknown 99 99 193098337325	93.6% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 416 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 90.8 4K Mixed 26.9 151% 54.3 MB/s	DQ Read 44 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 26.3 33% 57.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 93.6% 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 (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 78 63 82437945 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6673 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8361470 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13066 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 848 (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 52 44 30873223216 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 500 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6800 (C2) HDA temperature 48 56 85899345968 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 114 99 82437945 (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 -59145994628128 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1112894091 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3356867505	57.8% Above average	Read 104 Write 97.5 Mixed 85.6 72% 95.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.06 4K Mixed 0.61 138% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 57.8% 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 way above expectations (87^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 41.9 MC Mixed 28.1 104% 36.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 42.2 SC Mixed 30.1 89% 31.2 GB/s	Latency 51 78% 51 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 103% 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 $195Bench 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 $37Bench 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: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $493

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16