Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 102% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	135% 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	278% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5 (all builds)
Memory	53.3 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors, 3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161124
Uptime	4.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 30 '18 at 07:50
Run Duration	222 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 85.8 1-Core 142 2-Core 272 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 707 73% 588 Pts	64-Core 775 48% 775 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.96% Terrible	Lighting 8.4 Reflection 11.9 Parallax 8.44 7% 9.59 fps	MRender 11.3 Gravity 7.47 Splatting 16.6 10% 11.8 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.96% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 191 Reflection 208 Parallax 187 156% 195 fps	MRender 133 Gravity 186 Splatting 132 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 405GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20722 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 605 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 36 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 127 (F1) Unknown 99 99 65575249669
Poor: 78% Great: 126%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 171GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	278% Outstanding	Read 1,960 Write 1,710 Mixed 1,575 389% 1,748 MB/s	4K Read 48.8 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 68.8 244% 90.9 MB/s	DQ Read 439 DQ Write 429 DQ Mixed 37.7 137% 302 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 278% Great: 353%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 8TB 16,705 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 3TB free Firmware: D781 Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	61.6% Good	Read 135 Write 76.2 Mixed 74.9 71% 95.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.68 4K Write 5.55 4K Mixed 0.42 428% 4.22 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 92%
Seagate NAS HDD 4TB-$145 4,962 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2.5TB free Firmware: SC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 66073240 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1851 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 35324616 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9656 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 221 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 108 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 521535519 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1851 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 38654705695 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	83% Excellent	Read 149 Write 140 Mixed 104 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.18 70% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 100%
Seagate ST4000VN000-1H4168 2TB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 835GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 170 4216 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5191 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12340 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 982 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 97 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10917 (C2) HDA temperature 118 104 29 (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	63.7% Good	Read 105 Write 117 Mixed 134 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.21 95% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C15 4x16GB-$420 211 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70% Very good	MC Read 24.1 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 22.4 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 21.1 61% 21.2 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 157%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K5

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	666x
Core i5-7600KIntel $169Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	147x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	169x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	159x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	129x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	60x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	36x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	51x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	25x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $564

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $250	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $128	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $29

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16