Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170210
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 29 '17 at 15:43
Run Duration	172 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 as expected (57^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 90.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 235 86% 151 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 670 65% 532 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1640 MHz, MLim: 1902 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.89 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.3% Good	Lighting 79.8 Reflection 80 Parallax 71.5 65% 77.1 fps	MRender 82.4 Gravity 74 Splatting 66.7 60% 74.4 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 120GB 3,401 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 69GB free (System drive) Firmware: 332ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 16176599 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 92127048506858 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1940 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 64 (B1) Unknown 0 0 6 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 27 38 47247130651 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16176599 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16176599 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16176599 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12847 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11793 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11793 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10784	69% Good	Read 491 Write 126 Mixed 195 59% 271 MB/s	4K Read 25.1 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 19.7 123% 52.4 MB/s	DQ Read 134 DQ Write 129 DQ Mixed 34.2 52% 99 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 81%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 838GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 111 103 7408 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5773 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3400 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 132 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 177 177 69566 (C2) HDA temperature 121 95 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 19 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	50.9% Above average	Read 90.1 Write 87.2 Mixed 81 65% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.24 78% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 57%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 554GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 180 177 3966 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4872 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6686 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1780 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 200 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4674 (C2) HDA temperature 118 105 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 456 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60% Good	Read 105 Write 104 Mixed 111 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 2.33 4K Mixed 0.55 153% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 486GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 7561755 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3142 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 52218615 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5399 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2386 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 97 4295033009 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 454361115 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 55834574875 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 26 7561755 (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 122694330755606 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3459349954 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3348177877	62% Good	Read 109 Write 107 Mixed 102 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.42 95% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 1x8GB-$25 47,473 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	41.8% Average	MC Read 16.1 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 11.3 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 12 SC Mixed 10.8 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 41.8% Great: 48%

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Gaming 106%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 - $240

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	598x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	67x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	152x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	138x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	29x

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Total price: $1,050

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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