Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	65.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	115% 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	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '18 at 05:46
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 130 2-Core 259 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 513 67% 503 Pts	64-Core 497 31% 497 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6161) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2254 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.2% Good	Lighting 80.2 Reflection 85.6 Parallax 73.6 65% 79.8 fps	MRender 82 Gravity 75.2 Splatting 80.2 65% 79.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 232GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	242% Outstanding	Read 2,162 Write 1,207 Mixed 1,274 341% 1,547 MB/s	4K Read 57.4 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 50.3 215% 76.2 MB/s	DQ Read 498 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 169 183% 312 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 242% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2579 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1679 (B1) Unknown 98 98 37 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 48 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 147 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16327604333	115% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 418 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 96.2 4K Mixed 47.1 181% 63 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 104 135% 244 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 56GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2308 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1421 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1561 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 767 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2907 (C2) HDA temperature 120 109 23 (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	62.7% Good	Read 111 Write 107 Mixed 99.8 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 1.27 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.31 126% 1.22 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 109%

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 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	95.3% Outstanding	MC Read 35.7 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 28.3 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 33.4 SC Mixed 28 78% 27.3 GB/s	Latency 52.5 76% 52.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 95.3% 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	346x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	268x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	79x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	134x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	75x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	47x
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	75x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	31x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	28x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $599

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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