Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.8%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	98.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	9.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1360 x 768 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161104
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '17 at 02:16
Run Duration	514 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-6600K-$215 86,171 User benchmarks - Average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	SC Int 140 SC Float 151 SC Mixed 145 116% 146 Pts	QC Int 416 QC Float 468 QC Mixed 461 102% 448 Pts	MC Int 483 MC Float 574 MC Mixed 545 80% 534 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 108%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$410 151,116 User benchmarks - Average bench 101% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	Lighting 297 Reflection 285 Parallax 309 93% 297 fps	MRender 203 Gravity 285 Splatting 228 102% 239 fps
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 112%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 41,433 User benchmarks - Average bench 8% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4550 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	8.67% Terrible	Lighting 23.1 Reflection 28.4 Parallax 18.8 7% 23.4 fps	MRender 18.9 Gravity 20.4 Splatting 37.3 10% 25.5 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 8.67% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung Portable SSD T3 250GB 232 User benchmarks - Average bench 69% 132GB free Firmware: 0 !4KALIGNED Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	74.5% Very good	Read 434 Write 410 Mixed 424 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 38.7 4K Mixed 24.1 87% 28.8 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 14.3 40% 84.2 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 81%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$97 156,440 User benchmarks - Average bench 95% 115GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 445 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 97 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 53 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1539589828
Poor: 68% Great: 116%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$64 17,761 User benchmarks - Average bench 58% 64GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ !4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 175 100 431 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3227 (A6) Unknown 100 100 234 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 666 (A9) Unknown 100 100 25 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 270 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2282 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 100 206158430238 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 9 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 24989 (F1) Unknown 253 253 10656 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7961	70.6% Very good	Read 510 Write 200 Mixed 286 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 3.81 106% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 214 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 3.89 59% 140 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 75%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$100 4,442 User benchmarks - Average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 45938000 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 182 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1071402 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 291 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 69 437518361 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 589 (C2) HDA temperature 25 40 73014444057 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 118025701294205 (F1) Unknown 100 253 953402176 (F2) Unknown 100 253 134071353010	78.7% Very good	Read 103 Write 170 Mixed 111 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.29 4K Mixed 0.75 213% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$35 33,689 User benchmarks - Average bench 56% 434GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM !4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 122817200 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13430 (05) Reallocated sector count 87 87 547 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 4983431524 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 35947 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6161 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 4295033041 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 52 420741145 (C2) HDA temperature 25 48 51539607577 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 14 122817200 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 23343147303342 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2499846859 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4209186690	73.8% Very good	Read 132 Write 125 Mixed 113 93% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.6 130% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 69%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 64GB-$19 2,224 User benchmarks - Average bench 29% 60GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	28% Poor	Read 112 Write 27 Mixed 27.4 54% 55.5 MB/s	4K Read 5.91 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.01 71% 2.45 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 28% Great: 47%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB 2,146 User benchmarks - Average bench 10% 11GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	7.05% Terrible	Read 19.5 Write 7.51 Mixed 9.9 14% 12.3 MB/s	4K Read 6.05 4K Write 0.38 4K Mixed 1.6 90% 2.68 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.05% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$163 19,380 User benchmarks - Average bench 87% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled	54.1% Above average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 18.6 MC Mixed 16.2 52% 18 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 18.2 50% 17.5 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 54.1% Great: 106%

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Gaming 95%

Nuclear submarine

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 66%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170MX-Gaming 5 - $151

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $314Bench 92%, 134,212 samples	705x
Core i5-6600KIntel $215Bench 88%, 86,171 samples	572x
Core i5-6500Intel $172Bench 73%, 39,980 samples	114x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $410Bench 101%, 151,116 samples	372x
GTX 970Nvidia $350Bench 64%, 198,763 samples	193x
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 8%, 41,433 samples	161x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $97Bench 95%, 156,440 samples	276x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $150Bench 96%, 92,372 samples	165x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $200Bench 179%, 15,385 samples	88x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $152Bench 84%, 34,710 samples	123x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $163Bench 87%, 19,380 samples	113x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $130Bench 71%, 12,577 samples	85x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $1,124

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-7700K $297	Nvidia GTX 1070 $410	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $97
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 $270	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $120
Intel Core i5-7600K $220	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $265	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $150

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $45	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $724	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $33
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $77	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $152	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $22
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB $56	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $141	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $20