Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	77% 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	186% 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.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	14.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170922
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 14 '17 at 08:49
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.6 1-Core 129 2-Core 253 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 754 78% 626 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 107 Parallax 96.4 82% 101 fps	MRender 85.1 Gravity 88.9 Splatting 74.1 67% 82.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 512GB-$283 5,683 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 352GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd 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 2252 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2696 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 60 (AE) Unknown 100 100 202 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4403 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 57 184684707870 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 30657601528 (F7) Unknown 100 100 962687255 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1006526574	94.8% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 460 Mixed 477 108% 486 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 21.3 129% 52.7 MB/s	DQ Read 27.5 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 80.3 93% 150 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 111%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 153GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	186% Outstanding	Read 1,980 Write 903 Mixed 1,127 294% 1,336 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 136 4K Mixed 29.4 159% 65.9 MB/s	DQ Read 44.4 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 27.7 41% 74.1 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 186% Great: 243%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3466 C16 2x8GB-$253 5,267 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	MC Read 45.5 MC Write 45.8 MC Mixed 33.3 119% 41.5 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 39.2 SC Mixed 29.8 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 47.7 84% 47.7 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 115%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $221

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,881x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	210x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	753x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	359x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	295x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	210x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	169x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	158x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	186x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	173x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	128x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,049

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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