Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 134% UFO	Desktop 109% UFO	Workstation 124% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (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 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 107%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	123% 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	288% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171116
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 07 '17 at 19:13
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (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 i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Memory 98.3 1-Core 156 2-Core 311 103% 188 Pts	4-Core 622 8-Core 987 99% 804 Pts	64-Core 1,245 77% 1,245 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 100%

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: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2815 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 165 Reflection 202 Parallax 196 134% 187 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 180 Splatting 130 118% 146 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 416GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	288% Outstanding	Read 2,892 Write 1,328 Mixed 1,451 415% 1,891 MB/s	4K Read 60.3 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 50.4 228% 82.5 MB/s	DQ Read 638 DQ Write 390 DQ Mixed 215 240% 414 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 288% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 24GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3849 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2271 (B1) Unknown 94 94 202 (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 77 54 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 96 96 3218 (EB) Unknown 99 99 682 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15954735237
Poor: 62% Great: 110%
WD Blue 250GB-$80 26,761 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 19GB free Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 957 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (A5) Unknown 100 100 51591316156 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 24 (A9) Unknown 100 100 219 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 11 (AE) Unknown 100 100 234 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 14 (C2) HDA temperature 76 46 197569544216 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2199043768832 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2895 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5079 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3117 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7140 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.1% Very good	Read 491 Write 325 Mixed 303 82% 373 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 11.1 82% 27.8 MB/s	DQ Read 322 DQ Write 91.5 DQ Mixed 46.4 76% 153 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 100%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 357GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 168 1950 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 807 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1645 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 786 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 109 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 791 (C2) HDA temperature 116 101 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	84.7% Excellent	Read 155 Write 140 Mixed 136 108% 144 MB/s	4K Read 1.24 4K Write 2.69 4K Mixed 0.35 141% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 109%
SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 16GB-$17 2,906 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 9GB free, PID 5580 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	47.6% Average	Read 42.2 Write 41.1 Mixed 23.8 44% 35.7 MB/s	4K Read 8.71 4K Write 9.92 4K Mixed 4.31 516% 7.65 MB/s	DQ Read 9.06 DQ Write 9.69 DQ Mixed 4.31 510% 7.68 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 81%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 9,254 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	97.3% Outstanding	MC Read 36.2 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 26.8 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 23 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 30.6 89% 31.1 GB/s	Latency 44.6 90% 44.6 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 117%

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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	2,874x
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	752x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	357x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	293x

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	168x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	157x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	185x
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	127x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,049

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) $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