Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5

Performance Results


Gaming 63% Destroyer	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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	66.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	50.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5 (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1024 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	14.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 05 '17 at 18:47
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 96.2 1-Core 131 2-Core 250 90% 159 Pts	4-Core 424 8-Core 689 68% 557 Pts	64-Core 713 44% 713 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 1435) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	66.1% Good	Lighting 85.4 Reflection 87.5 Parallax 75.8 70% 82.9 fps	MRender 71.3 Gravity 71.6 Splatting 74.1 59% 72.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin ECO3 240GB-$99 848 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0330AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd 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 100 100 371 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1663 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 36 (A3) Unknown 100 100 274 (94) Unknown 100 100 187942 (95) Unknown 100 100 2566 (96) Unknown 100 100 2414 (97) Unknown 100 100 2539 (A4) Unknown 100 100 44064 (A5) Unknown 100 100 82 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A9) Unknown 100 100 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35313776918552 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 117637 (F2) Unknown 100 100 167383 (F5) Unknown 100 100 260253 (F6) Unknown 100 100 375884 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	50.2% Above average	Read 480 Write 253 Mixed 269 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 17.4 4K Write 15.3 4K Mixed 11 48% 14.6 MB/s	DQ Read 14.1 DQ Write 31.2 DQ Mixed 5.59 9% 17 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 50.2% Great: 99%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 49GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3623312 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 63213328691387 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 553 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 40 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 25 43 64427327513 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3623312 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3623312 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3623312 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 23696 (EA) Unknown 0 0 18886 (F1) Unknown 0 0 18886 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25834	43.1% Average	Read 489 Write 128 Mixed 191 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 13.7 4K Write 27.8 4K Mixed 7.57 45% 16.3 MB/s	DQ Read 63.2 DQ Write 51.4 DQ Mixed 29 30% 47.9 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110847888 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13528 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10302931 (09) Power-on hours count 51 12 43548 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 95 1170 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 47245361166 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 59 454557723 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 254 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 62 62 77347 (C2) HDA temperature 27 41 64424509467 (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 -53648436489447 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30695354393621 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -81258599860230	77.9% Very good	Read 133 Write 139 Mixed 122 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.29 85% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 336GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 130 4116 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10284 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21665 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8667 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 570 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 101 101 299142 (C2) HDA temperature 119 103 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	68.4% Good	Read 119 Write 119 Mixed 115 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.29 4K Mixed 0.24 93% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	MC Read 35 MC Write 36.7 MC Mixed 26.4 93% 32.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 31.6 SC Mixed 28.5 76% 26.6 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 110%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270MX-Gaming5

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 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 $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	25x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $43Bench 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: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $525

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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