Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 97% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 96.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	113% 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	259% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 18 '17 at 05:37
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 144 2-Core 286 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 800 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 800 50% 800 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6288) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 152 Reflection 155 Parallax 134 124% 147 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 145 Splatting 112 101% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% 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% 265GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	259% Outstanding	Read 2,302 Write 1,272 Mixed 1,330 360% 1,635 MB/s	4K Read 62.2 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 34.9 231% 90.1 MB/s	DQ Read 562 DQ Write 464 DQ Mixed 24.9 152% 350 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 259% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 500GB-$150 68,337 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 203GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 21432 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 727 (B1) Unknown 89 89 125 (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 73 49 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 138 (F1) Unknown 99 99 86793107549	78.7% Very good	Read 495 Write 195 Mixed 348 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 36.1 4K Write 85.7 4K Mixed 28.7 137% 50.2 MB/s	DQ Read 35.1 DQ Write 241 DQ Mixed 19.5 50% 98.4 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 126%
OCZ Vertex 4 256GB-$400 12,355 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 149GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 29439 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1133 (E8) Unknown 100 100 10663235347 (E9) Unknown 100 0 100	107% Outstanding	Read 463 Write 417 Mixed 405 96% 428 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 139 4K Mixed 33.9 164% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 16.1 97% 223 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 106%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 551GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 145 11366 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1464 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22485 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 775 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 77 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1386 (C2) HDA temperature 122 99 30 (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	75.1% Very good	Read 133 Write 129 Mixed 121 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 2.99 4K Mixed 0.3 122% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 112%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 339GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 166 4383 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2719 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 42331 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1954 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 247 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2471 (C2) HDA temperature 118 94 29 (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	57.6% Above average	Read 114 Write 86.9 Mixed 95 74% 98.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.31 89% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 27.6 100% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 32 94% 32.7 GB/s	Latency 48.1 83% 48.1 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 107%

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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 $295	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