Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Gunboat	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
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	151% 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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Nov 06 '17 at 00:37
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	22%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^th 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 (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 151 2-Core 304 100% 183 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 534 67% 510 Pts	64-Core 557 34% 557 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89.4% 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: 1639 MHz, MLim: 1825 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 79 Parallax 77.1 62% 77.6 fps	MRender 80.4 Gravity 71.2 Splatting 63.8 58% 71.8 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 (65^th 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 2077 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 774 (64) Unknown 100 100 5687680 (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 37 100 300648955941 (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 5069 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 9415 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4729 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4411 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5778 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 23107	151% Outstanding	Read 1,100 Write 899 Mixed 887 214% 962 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 17.1 132% 52.8 MB/s	DQ Read 387 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 17.3 99% 229 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 151% 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 4890 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1610 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 28 (A3) Unknown 100 100 323 (94) Unknown 100 100 88754 (95) Unknown 100 100 1283 (96) Unknown 100 100 1103 (97) Unknown 100 100 1250 (A4) Unknown 100 100 23204 (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 40845745455133 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 101558 (F2) Unknown 100 100 184901 (F5) Unknown 100 100 137048 (F6) Unknown 100 100 177508 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	80.8% Excellent	Read 498 Write 266 Mixed 275 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 62 4K Mixed 25.5 115% 40.1 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 44.1 83% 167 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 80.8% 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 (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19458 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1721 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 357 (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 11838287051 (F2) Unknown 47 47 13425679527	75.9% Very good	Read 485 Write 280 Mixed 351 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 81.5 4K Mixed 19.8 104% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 96.8 DQ Mixed 72 85% 153 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 75.9% 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 (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205455237 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4304 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 194820163 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 37671 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1599 (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 72 63 471203868 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 38 26 205455237 (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 16376710341726 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1412475080 (F2) Unknown 100 253 341356362	68.8% Good	Read 120 Write 119 Mixed 101 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.66 138% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 68.8% 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 3425 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1396 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 34189 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1297 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 525 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1396 (C2) HDA temperature 120 108 27 (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 31508 (F1) Unknown 200 200 8617966045 (F2) Unknown 200 200 5174990857	65.8% Good	Read 113 Write 116 Mixed 109 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 2.91 4K Mixed 0.48 144% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 65.8% 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 above expectations (82^nd percentile)	84.4% Excellent	MC Read 29.5 MC Write 33.1 MC Mixed 28 86% 30.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 32.1 SC Mixed 23 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 61.6 65% 61.6 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 89%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	349x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	272x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	136x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	76x

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 $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	77x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	31x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	28x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $585

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