Gigabyte GA-Z270X-DESIGNARE-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	129% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

System	Gigabyte Z270X-DESIGNARE
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-DESIGNARE-CF (all builds)
Memory	27 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 16 '17 at 22:53
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	8%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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 (79^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 85.1 1-Core 131 2-Core 258 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 453 8-Core 711 72% 582 Pts	64-Core 676 42% 676 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 181 Reflection 179 Parallax 178 148% 180 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 173 Splatting 126 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
G.skill FM-25S3-240GPF 240GB 294 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 122GB free Firmware: SAFM01.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1235 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 565 (11) Unknown 100 100 74 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 689 (AD) Unknown 100 100 262160 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 340 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 827 (F1) Unknown 100 100 799	99.2% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 504 Mixed 515 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 15.7 137% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 36.8 DQ Write 350 DQ Mixed 15.7 65% 134 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 109%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 864GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 167 6266 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1334 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 3670 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1189 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 175 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 72954 (C2) HDA temperature 123 106 27 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	53.6% Above average	Read 90.2 Write 96.5 Mixed 89.4 69% 92 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.17 71% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 250GB-$33 44,469 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 4GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 166692404 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5443 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 86 60 402694629 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27321 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 37 2712 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 221 (BC) Unknown 100 96 131138 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 572325918 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 64424509470 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 16 166692404 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -270582905539 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2332992828 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1117600593	56.5% Above average	Read 79.7 Write 118 Mixed 93.1 73% 96.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.41 81% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x16GB-$65 2,716 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.8% Good	MC Read 25.1 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 22.3 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 22.4 59% 20.7 GB/s	Latency 71.9 56% 71.9 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 81%

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Typical GA-Z270X-DESIGNARE-CF Builds (Compare 169 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-DESIGNARE-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	95x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	29x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	25x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	25x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	13x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	18x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	10x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	12x
8GBF1X08QFHH38-135-K 2x8GBUnknownBench 80%, 10,593 samples	5x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	5x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $794

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 $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