Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	46.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	203% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	26.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160310
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '17 at 04:16
Run Duration	226 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	75.9% Very good	Memory 79.1 1-Core 113 2-Core 229 78% 140 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 443 57% 430 Pts	64-Core 451 28% 451 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	46.8% Average	Lighting 58.5 Reflection 60 Parallax 57.7 48% 58.7 fps	MRender 65.1 Gravity 55.3 Splatting 48.5 45% 56.3 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 284GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4508 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 632 (B1) Unknown 98 98 37 (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 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25778374188	113% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 389 Mixed 403 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 45.6 4K Write 89.7 4K Mixed 47.8 178% 61.1 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 120 143% 251 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 512GB-$290 5,772 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW25L0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4509 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 632 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 97 97 65 (AE) Unknown 99 99 8 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1636 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 56 38 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 33544 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7476 (F2) Unknown 99 99 6459	203% Outstanding	Read 1,853 Write 939 Mixed 1,152 290% 1,315 MB/s	4K Read 40.8 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 45.4 179% 65.8 MB/s	DQ Read 465 DQ Write 297 DQ Mixed 180 188% 314 MB/s
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 203% Great: 241%
Samsung MZHPU256HCGL-000H1 256GB 79 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 23GB free Firmware: UXM62H1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4143 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1290 (B1) Unknown 95 95 157 (B2) Unknown 91 91 215 (B3) Unknown 92 92 411 (B4) Unknown 92 92 4837 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0
Poor: 65% Great: 86%
Intel S3500 Series 240GB-$135 644 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 10GB free Firmware: D2010370 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4267 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 586 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 13 (AF) Unknown 100 100 4306961066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 75 420675609 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 34 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 28420 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 379 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 41 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 252903 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 28420 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20043	86.2% Excellent	Read 445 Write 277 Mixed 343 79% 355 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 29.5 132% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 294 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 105 123% 214 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 87%
WD Black 5TB (2015)-$71 7,245 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 188GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 192 100 9400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 824 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3917 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 560 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 816 (C2) HDA temperature 104 99 48 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	86.6% Excellent	Read 118 Write 183 Mixed 156 115% 152 MB/s	4K Read 2.09 4K Write 2.87 4K Mixed 0.35 179% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 107%
WD Black 5TB (2015)-$71 7,245 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 37GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 192 100 9400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 882 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 564 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 100 874 (C2) HDA temperature 107 100 45 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	102% Outstanding	Read 129 Write 226 Mixed 162 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 1.46 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.28 140% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 1,442 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.7% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 24.7 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 18.2 54% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 82.2 49% 82.2 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 112%

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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 $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