Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.5% 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	73.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 24 '16 at 14:58
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 133 2-Core 254 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 641 68% 543 Pts	64-Core 720 45% 720 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 1B81) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 373.6 Performing below potential (69^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.5% Excellent	Lighting 100 Reflection 117 Parallax 104 82% 107 fps	MRender 92.2 Gravity 102 Splatting 99.6 81% 98.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ssd2sc12 0GC1DH16T-T 120GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: 504A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 22714479 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6210522710662 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1340 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 32 (B1) Unknown 0 0 20 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 49 55837786141 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 22714479 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 22714479 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 22714479 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 91 91 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 29579 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11823 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11823 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9217	73.9% Very good	Read 499 Write 143 Mixed 218 62% 286 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 20.4 134% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 131 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 36.2 56% 105 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 74%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 393GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 236999400 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3353 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19132116 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11345 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1530 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 48 571736098 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 42464 (C2) HDA temperature 34 52 47244640290 (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 131039452204222 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21713325729581 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17517393314183	71.8% Very good	Read 137 Write 113 Mixed 90.3 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.28 79% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 264GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 172983344 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4676 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 46901082 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10608 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1336 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 77 77 23 (BE) vendor-specific 74 46 538050586 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 92 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 79 79 42025 (C2) HDA temperature 26 54 55834574874 (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 2924872732522 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30607213774 (F2) Unknown 100 253 32323372583	77.1% Very good	Read 151 Write 118 Mixed 109 94% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.03 4K Mixed 0.23 62% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3200 2x8GB 99,207 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.2% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 20.4 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 21.9 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 110%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 87%

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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	352x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	273x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	136x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 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 $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	78x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	31x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	28x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $587

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $252	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16