Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	64.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170906
Uptime	6 Days
Run Date	Nov 01 '17 at 17:40
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 89 1-Core 133 2-Core 258 89% 160 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 838 79% 653 Pts	64-Core 1,076 67% 1,076 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 145 Parallax 126 113% 137 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 134 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 135GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10197 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 28 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 54 50 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 603536338	103% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 410 Mixed 418 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 88.9 4K Mixed 44.1 165% 57.8 MB/s	DQ Read 40.7 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 112 98% 139 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 12GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 32425 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 329 (B1) Unknown 84 84 567 (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 51 46 49 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 194 (F1) Unknown 99 99 56963699504	64.2% Good	Read 476 Write 86.3 Mixed 148 51% 237 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 92.5 4K Mixed 16.8 113% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 88.3 DQ Mixed 18.1 51% 113 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 116%
Seagate IronWolf 4TB (2016)-$95 26,217 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 1.5TB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 64 55724067 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 209 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 182538832 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -58776627439260 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 26 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 56 739967014 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 138 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5017 (C2) HDA temperature 38 44 73014444070 (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 -114353504249655 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5855125746 (F2) Unknown 100 253 10415774165	81.5% Excellent	Read 144 Write 140 Mixed 107 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.23 78% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1TB free Firmware: CC3C 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 3728 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1711 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 53 296386335589 (09) Power-on hours count 45 45 48362 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 972 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 97 223341838409 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 39 1233412423721 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 260 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1812 (C2) HDA temperature 41 61 55834574889 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 18 3 3728 (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 -90482075982012 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2452782189 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2985423778	63.7% Good	Read 110 Write 112 Mixed 105 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.29 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.46 80% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 75%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 399GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 176 3950 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 352 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 16934 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 76 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 656249 (C2) HDA temperature 108 95 39 (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	68.3% Good	Read 112 Write 126 Mixed 93.4 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.19 86% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 13,232 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62.4% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 18.5 63% 22.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 18.6 SC Mixed 17.4 49% 17 GB/s	Latency 68.5 58% 68.5 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 108%

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Gaming 111%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 - $226

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,934x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	540x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	271x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	480x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	304x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	224x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	149x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	121x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	110x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	154x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	141x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	84x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,035

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