Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	107% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170306
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '18 at 03:26
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 128 2-Core 239 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 685 70% 566 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 97.1 92% 109 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 95.5 Splatting 103 81% 98.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel Raid 0 Volume 1TB 11,317 User benchmarks, average bench 264% 813GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	107% Outstanding	Read 670 Write 732 Mixed 719 158% 707 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 54.6 4K Mixed 14.8 83% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 23 DQ Write 495 DQ Mixed 12.2 83% 177 MB/s
Poor: 120% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 445%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 117GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd 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 2073 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 991 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 70 (A3) Unknown 100 100 21 (A4) Unknown 100 100 64232 (A5) Unknown 100 100 206 (A6) Unknown 100 100 23 (A7) Unknown 100 100 60 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 23 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 87 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 109365 (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 31 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 593782 (F2) Unknown 100 100 552670 (F5) Unknown 100 100 1027712	90.4% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 427 Mixed 465 105% 471 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 97.7 4K Mixed 22.8 124% 49.7 MB/s	DQ Read 27.1 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 64.7 77% 125 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 108%
Seagate ST2000LM003 HN-M201RAD 2TB 50,772 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 936GB free Firmware: 2BE10001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 88 86 3847 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3949 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7457 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1002 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 43 244813922334 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 5 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 4 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 497120	62.4% Good	Read 98.3 Write 119 Mixed 115 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.28 96% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB-$182 7,414 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.5% Very good	MC Read 25.4 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 22.4 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 22.7 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 101%

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Typical GA-Z170X-Gaming 5 Builds (Compare 1,345 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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 $109Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	40x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $631

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