Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battleship	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	65.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	28.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '17 at 22:33
Run Duration	227 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 147 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 544 8-Core 768 82% 656 Pts	64-Core 794 49% 794 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371D) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2040 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	65.1% Good	Lighting 82.4 Reflection 80.5 Parallax 69.7 67% 77.6 fps	MRender 73.8 Gravity 75.2 Splatting 74.9 61% 74.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 429GB free Firmware: X4140000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 461 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1114122 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 23 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 419 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 56 57 244815101996 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8589934594 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 80 (EA) Unknown 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 253 253 97 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.9% Very good	Read 499 Write 349 Mixed 345 88% 398 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 43.3 4K Mixed 20.4 92% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 26.7 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 37.3 52% 89.5 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 104%
Adata SP550NS38 480GB 281 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 380GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0414B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^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 100 100 311 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 30 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 448 (A3) Unknown 100 100 29 (A4) Unknown 100 100 15417 (A5) Unknown 100 100 11 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 7 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 60 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 65586 (F2) Unknown 100 100 42365 (F5) Unknown 100 100 61668	73.6% Very good	Read 493 Write 258 Mixed 270 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 26.7 4K Write 58.5 4K Mixed 18.8 95% 34.6 MB/s	DQ Read 275 DQ Write 174 DQ Mixed 40.9 80% 163 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 91%
Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB-$54 40,725 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 19GB free Firmware: P1021A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^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 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 47 (A3) Unknown 100 100 14 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3114 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 6 (94) Unknown 100 100 1559 (95) Unknown 100 100 75 (96) Unknown 100 100 0 (97) Unknown 100 100 45 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 46 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14868 (F2) Unknown 100 100 12269 (F5) Unknown 100 100 49824	89.9% Excellent	Read 513 Write 339 Mixed 355 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 29.1 127% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 61.2 94% 179 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 118%
Adata Ultimate SU800 256GB-$54 40,725 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 6GB free Firmware: P0801A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^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 15 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 31 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 54 (A3) Unknown 100 100 14 (A4) Unknown 100 100 3706 (A5) Unknown 100 100 16 (A6) Unknown 100 100 5 (A7) Unknown 100 100 7 (94) Unknown 100 100 2772 (95) Unknown 100 100 138 (96) Unknown 100 100 16 (97) Unknown 100 100 92 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 49 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 21302 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18173 (F5) Unknown 100 100 59296	72.3% Very good	Read 515 Write 336 Mixed 352 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 28.7 4K Write 27.2 4K Mixed 10.9 72% 22.2 MB/s	DQ Read 247 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 55.6 92% 178 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 118%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 776GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 137 3808 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7374 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16937 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 64 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17721 (C2) HDA temperature 107 95 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	80.6% Excellent	Read 138 Write 143 Mixed 133 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.2 109% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 87%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 5TB 1,185 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 3.5TB free, PID d011 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	Read 169 Write 172 Mixed 104 185% 148 MB/s	4K Read 13.2 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.28 133% 5.21 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 81%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 151 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 36.1 MC Write 41 MC Mixed 31.2 103% 36.1 GB/s	SC Read 23 SC Write 40.6 SC Mixed 32.1 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 52.8 76% 52.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 104%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 - $192

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	484x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	113x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	33x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	23x

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Total price: $960

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