Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K7

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 85.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	159% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K7 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 24 '17 at 18:22
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 133 2-Core 240 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 732 71% 585 Pts	64-Core 745 46% 745 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 114% 140 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 110 97% 120 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$139 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 457GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1075 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 272 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 71 43 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9406173413	46.5% Average	Read 427 Write 178 Mixed 240 62% 282 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 1.89 69% 15.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 133%
Nvme PNY CS2030 240GB 96 User benchmarks, average bench 173% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS203020 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	159% Outstanding	Read 2,161 Write 251 Mixed 230 186% 881 MB/s	4K Read 33.7 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 40.9 164% 63.2 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 121 DQ Mixed 60.5 72% 126 MB/s
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 159% Great: 255%
Seagate BUP BK 4TB 13,353 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0108 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	66.7% Good	Read 127 Write 103 Mixed 91.6 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 1.64 4K Write 6.2 4K Mixed 0.62 252% 2.82 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 66.7% Great: 65%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 47149080 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1603 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 57 47328786242 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 20111 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 818 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 38 40673828208668 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 248 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 81702 (C2) HDA temperature 28 62 55834574876 (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 -65176128703372 (F1) Unknown 100 253 135689410510 (F2) Unknown 100 253 142525093686	102% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 161 Mixed 177 134% 177 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.37 100% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 128971560 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 654 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 13879273036 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19215 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 591 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032844 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 35 -3807051748 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 192 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2209 (C2) HDA temperature 28 65 -140737488355300 (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 135012296968892 (F1) Unknown 100 253 124009853469 (F2) Unknown 100 253 307886863542	99.1% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 171 Mixed 169 129% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.31 94% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 5,376 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (30^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.1% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 23.3 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 30.6 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 111%

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Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K7

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	220x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	37x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	32x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	42x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	37x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	11x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 82%, 14,957 samples	12x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $802

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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