Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 95.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	156% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 20 '18 at 05:53
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.2% Outstanding	Memory 93.4 1-Core 145 2-Core 290 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 558 8-Core 566 75% 562 Pts	64-Core 565 35% 565 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 95.2% 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: 1585 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 72.9 Reflection 75.8 Parallax 66.5 59% 71.7 fps	Gravity 65.1 Splatting 56.4 53% 60.7 fps
Poor: 43% 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% 332GB free (System drive) Firmware: OC34L5TP Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 10400 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2491 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 997 (64) Unknown 100 100 5980288 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 133 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 45 (B2) Unknown 100 100 64 (B4) Unknown 100 100 19022 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 42 100 300648693802 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 10400 (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 5509 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 10400 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5780 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5377 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7353 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 24993	156% Outstanding	Read 1,099 Write 929 Mixed 924 219% 984 MB/s	4K Read 37.2 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 18.2 133% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 445 DQ Write 320 DQ Mixed 18.5 112% 261 MB/s
Poor: 94% ↑ This bench: 156% Great: 181%
Crucial BX200 240GB-$36 36,559 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 105GB free Firmware: MU01.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^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 5304 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1841 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 28 (A3) Unknown 100 100 323 (94) Unknown 100 100 92231 (95) Unknown 100 100 1344 (96) Unknown 100 100 1163 (97) Unknown 100 100 1299 (A4) Unknown 100 100 23730 (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 100 100 188 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38642393481243 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 106032 (F2) Unknown 100 100 188229 (F5) Unknown 100 100 140155 (F6) Unknown 100 100 184462 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	77.3% Very good	Read 492 Write 258 Mixed 272 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 55 4K Mixed 24.6 108% 36.9 MB/s	DQ Read 279 DQ Write 146 DQ Mixed 43.6 78% 156 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 91%
Samsung PM830 128GB 13,767 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 69GB free Firmware: CXM02D1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19876 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1950 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 90 90 362 (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 71 71 12396419036 (F2) Unknown 32 32 14066093688	73.7% Very good	Read 480 Write 262 Mixed 337 79% 359 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 77.4 4K Mixed 19.8 100% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 71.4 86% 156 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$33 44,469 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 164GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 163014612 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4750 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 195992349 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 38067 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1822 (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 71 63 504954909 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 64424509469 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 26 163014612 (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 -846108514296 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3724679060 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3779368730	43.1% Average	Read 96.7 Write 53.6 Mixed 57.4 52% 69.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.15 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.37 64% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 68%
Toshiba MK3259GSXP 320GB-$50 3,175 User benchmarks, average bench 33% 140GB free Firmware: GN003J Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	13.9% Very poor	Read 36.3 Write 12.3 Mixed 21.4 18% 23.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.02 4K Write 0.03 4K Mixed 0.02 4% 0.02 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 13.9% Great: 48%

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 (75^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	MC Read 28.5 MC Write 32.1 MC Mixed 28 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 32 SC Mixed 25.4 72% 25.2 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 89%

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Workstation 58%

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	349x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 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 $90Bench 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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Total price: $580

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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