Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 88% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.1% 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	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	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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z270M-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170424
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 18 '18 at 09:23
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 130 2-Core 260 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 507 8-Core 503 68% 505 Pts	64-Core 508 32% 508 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1648 MHz, MLim: 1811 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 125 Parallax 112 101% 120 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 109 Splatting 88.6 81% 99.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 120GB-$199 19,348 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 14GB free Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -139766824837776 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4444 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3116 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 4678124 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3116 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 291880 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 53 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 291880 (F2) Unknown 100 100 331604 (F9) Unknown 100 100 7427	76.8% Very good	Read 512 Write 113 Mixed 227 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 23.7 143% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 161 DQ Mixed 45.2 69% 131 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 184GB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 167 2250 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 768 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14034 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 754 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 887 (C2) HDA temperature 104 96 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	77% Very good	Read 157 Write 111 Mixed 147 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.26 74% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$33 14,163 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	83.4% Excellent	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 35.4 MC Mixed 26.1 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 35.4 SC Mixed 26 72% 25.2 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 95%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical GA-Z270M-D3H-CF Builds (Compare 660 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 52%

Yacht

Desktop 89%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 45%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	194x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	132x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	130x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	89x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	48x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	15x
WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 1TBWDCBench 98%, 74,123 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	25x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	18x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $488

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