Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 26% Raft	Desktop 72% Battleship	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 56.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is average.
Graphics	37.1% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	71.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (76%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	7.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151016
Uptime	9 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '17 at 04:02
Run Duration	263 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	76%

PC Performing as expected (49^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 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	Memory 70.5 1-Core 98 2-Core 196 68% 121 Pts	4-Core 231 8-Core 328 35% 280 Pts	64-Core 402 25% 402 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gainward(10B0 17C8) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	37.1% Below average	Lighting 48 Reflection 73.6 Parallax 57.2 39% 59.6 fps	MRender 34.3 Gravity 42.8 Splatting 42.6 33% 39.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 37.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 60GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 227 100 227 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 590 (A6) Unknown 100 100 117 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 168 (A9) Unknown 100 100 46 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 151 (AE) Unknown 100 100 60 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 100 249108103211 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 5 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 36536 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2976 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8783	82.7% Excellent	Read 510 Write 414 Mixed 451 102% 459 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 5.26 101% 45.9 MB/s	DQ Read 188 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 33.7 74% 149 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 86%
Corsair Force LX 128GB-$144 1,867 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0307A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^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 1804 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1147 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 47 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 157747 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1775 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 45 (A3) Unknown 100 100 1 (A4) Unknown 100 100 141530 (A5) Unknown 100 100 190 (A6) Unknown 100 100 88 (A7) Unknown 100 100 139 (F1) Unknown 100 100 297015 (F2) Unknown 100 100 338123 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 413 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 297015 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0	71.9% Very good	Read 517 Write 145 Mixed 226 64% 296 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 90.9 4K Mixed 23.8 117% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 199 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 54.9 72% 132 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 84%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC24 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38451072 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1821 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 57 240838898581 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27412 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1198 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065672 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 60 38 348564881448 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 34 34 132991 (C2) HDA temperature 40 62 64424509480 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 187 628 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -49216030223644 (F1) Unknown 100 253 86074357647 (F2) Unknown 100 253 77545296537	95.9% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 165 Mixed 148 121% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.22 88% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 113%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$50 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 198GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 175 5941 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2297 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22371 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1105 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 106 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2190 (C2) HDA temperature 113 96 37 (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	72.1% Very good	Read 138 Write 114 Mixed 87.5 84% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.07 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 88%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 34GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9440 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 2864 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 44730 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1317 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437321754 (C2) HDA temperature 71 45 521207837 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 173198 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.2% Average	Read 78 Write 86.5 Mixed 78.2 61% 80.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.26 67% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$36 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	65.3% Good	MC Read 23.2 MC Write 26.2 MC Mixed 22.8 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 18 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 100 40% 100 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 109%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 - $167

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	640x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	297x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	121x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	108x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	92x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	82x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	40x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $617

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