Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	98.6% 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	134% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180309
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 01 '18 at 20:10
Run Duration	244 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-6100-$40 110,166 User benchmarks, average bench 55% U3E1, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69% Good	Memory 84.9 1-Core 111 2-Core 190 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 308 8-Core 314 42% 311 Pts	64-Core 317 20% 317 Pts
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 68%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Gigabyte(1458 3724) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2447 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 391.35 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	22.5% Poor	Lighting 1.83 Reflection 79.2 Parallax 66.8 2% 49.3 fps	MRender 85 Gravity 73 Splatting 75.2 63% 77.7 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 22.5% Great: 56%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3791) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvldumdx.dll Ver. 23.21.13.9135 Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	98.6% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 132 Parallax 124 103% 127 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 124 Splatting 104 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 110%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4973 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	6.11% Terrible	Lighting 6.33 Reflection 9.12 Parallax 6.09 5% 7.18 fps	MRender 9.19 Gravity 5.6 Splatting 13 8% 9.26 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.11% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata XPG SX7000 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$155 2,976 User benchmarks, average bench 126% 274GB free (System drive) Firmware: CB1.1.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	134% Outstanding	Read 1,442 Write 558 Mixed 738 200% 913 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 66.2 4K Mixed 29 116% 41.3 MB/s	DQ Read 208 DQ Write 106 DQ Mixed 67.1 74% 127 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 142%
Intel 520 Series 180GB-$132 14,258 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 76GB free Firmware: LF1i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 36928128822965 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1832 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 958 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 958 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 215522 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 68 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 215522 (F2) Unknown 100 100 464836 (F9) Unknown 100 100 6697	75.2% Very good	Read 484 Write 223 Mixed 274 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 80.8 4K Mixed 20.7 112% 43.2 MB/s	DQ Read 233 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 73.6 92% 165 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 88%
Toshiba HDWD130 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 40GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7817 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1345 (B1) Unknown 97 97 63 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 48 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 126 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22682171420	113% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 485 Mixed 504 112% 500 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 86.7 4K Mixed 51 174% 59.6 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 99.4 104% 171 MB/s
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 113%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$100 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 68 (03) Spinup time 137 137 34386411950 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 391 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1766 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 350 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2464 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2464 (C2) HDA temperature 133 133 244814577709 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	81.4% Excellent	Read 156 Write 128 Mixed 128 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.2 86% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 684GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 167 2325 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2357 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11521 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1872 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 312 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2070 (C2) HDA temperature 106 96 37 (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	95.5% Outstanding	Read 199 Write 134 Mixed 172 127% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.25 114% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 95.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4-2133 CL15 4GB 4x4GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.4% Good	MC Read 24.4 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 23.9 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 24.4 SC Mixed 12.2 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 72 56% 72 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	350x
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 $79Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	78x
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: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $590

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16