Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 127% UFO	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 90% Nuclear submarine


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 109%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	167% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago, 6 months ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170906
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 18:02
Run Duration	93 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-8700K-$320 103,934 User benchmarks, average bench 108% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	SC Int 132 SC Float 137 SC Mixed 135 108% 135 Pts	QC Int 527 QC Float 549 QC Mixed 538 122% 538 Pts	MC Int 994 MC Float 1,100 MC Mixed 1,068 158% 1054 Pts
Poor: 91% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 124%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$750 145,784 User benchmarks, average bench 152% PNY(196E 1210) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	167% Outstanding	Lighting 547 Reflection 510 Parallax 626 178% 561 fps	MRender 256 Gravity 531 Splatting 282 158% 356 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 167% Great: 176%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$92 4,684 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 3.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 66 198707584 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 34 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 20263079 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -68388764253389 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 34 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 420913217645 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 66 504627230 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 66 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 85899345950 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 66 198707584 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 192 35976 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -1614907703003 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14864604892 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1482757150	66.9% Good	Read 160 Write 72 Mixed 90.9 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 3.23 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.14 176% 1.59 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 3,331 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 29.8 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 22.2 SC Write 43.6 SC Mixed 30 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 54.1 74% 54.1 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 113%

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Gaming 128%

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Desktop 128%

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Workstation 117%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $229

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $320Bench 108%, 103,934 samples	3,642x
Core i5-8600KIntel $235Bench 102%, 34,604 samples	324x
Core i7-8700Intel $300Bench 102%, 17,889 samples	109x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $750Bench 152%, 145,784 samples	1,594x
GTX 1080Nvidia $490Bench 124%, 247,201 samples	807x
GTX 1070Nvidia $408Bench 99%, 300,805 samples	408x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $194Bench 220%, 53,218 samples	584x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $111Bench 198%, 76,444 samples	566x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $246Bench 291%, 23,641 samples	305x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $200Bench 87%, 18,158 samples	333x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $176Bench 83%, 82,666 samples	265x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $197Bench 91%, 49,008 samples	146x

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Value: 109% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,693

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $320	Nvidia GTX 1070 $408	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $85
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $289	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $121
Intel Core i5-8600K $235	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $160

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $176	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $44
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $951	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $59	HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB $219	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12