Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 96%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	101% 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	251% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 22 '17 at 14:43
Run Duration	162 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 139 2-Core 276 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 552 8-Core 559 74% 556 Pts	64-Core 558 35% 558 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6183) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 154 Parallax 126 105% 136 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 132 Splatting 105 94% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 437GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	251% Outstanding	Read 2,706 Write 1,300 Mixed 1,407 396% 1,805 MB/s	4K Read 59.6 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 30.1 202% 75.9 MB/s	DQ Read 59.2 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 183 119% 134 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 251% Great: 254%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 223GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 60 100 2876 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 156 (A6) Unknown 100 100 55 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 107 (A9) Unknown 100 100 33 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 92 (AE) Unknown 100 100 91 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 100 223338299431 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 21177 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10740 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3886	83.1% Excellent	Read 524 Write 354 Mixed 412 95% 430 MB/s	4K Read 25.4 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 3.97 105% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 229 DQ Write 301 DQ Mixed 24 85% 185 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 86%
Transcend TS480GSSD220S 480GB 5,978 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 150GB free Firmware: P0624AA Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^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 17 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 393 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 51 (A3) Unknown 100 100 518 (A4) Unknown 100 100 2052 (A5) Unknown 100 100 11 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 1 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36426173644826 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 20893 (F2) Unknown 100 100 17411 (F5) Unknown 100 100 24239	66.6% Good	Read 493 Write 239 Mixed 264 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 61.4 4K Mixed 15 95% 35 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 180 DQ Mixed 14.6 38% 75.6 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 95%
Toshiba THNSFJ256GCSU 256GB 3,843 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 29GB free Firmware: JULA1102 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1884 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 872 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 61 (C2) HDA temperature 74 49 219044249626 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	96.5% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 487 Mixed 508 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 40.9 138% 53.1 MB/s	DQ Read 27.5 DQ Write 99.8 DQ Mixed 24.6 30% 50.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 37.2 MC Write 40.7 MC Mixed 32.5 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 29.8 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 53.6 75% 53.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 104%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

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 $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