Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 119% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (47th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 53 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 93%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	129% 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	113% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	7.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171030
Uptime	10.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 26 '18 at 13:12
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (47^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	93% Outstanding	Memory 92.3 1-Core 136 2-Core 272 92% 167 Pts	4-Core 504 8-Core 847 82% 675 Pts	64-Core 1,064 66% 1,064 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 93% 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 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 201 Parallax 195 147% 192 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 177 Splatting 129 117% 144 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 327GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 253 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 7 (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 65 60 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 967418901	113% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 486 Mixed 507 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 34.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 40.3 157% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 163 168% 275 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 124%
OCZ Agility 4 256GB-$90 1,416 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 110GB free Firmware: 1.4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 39723 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 112 (E8) Unknown 100 100 99718243036 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0	63.5% Good	Read 301 Write 190 Mixed 206 51% 232 MB/s	4K Read 13.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 21.1 106% 48.6 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 72.6 86% 147 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 63.5% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 3949752 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 8 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 4073 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 253 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 71 70 505085981 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 36 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 77309411357 (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 74745315852541 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2959150 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2660327	90.9% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 150 Mixed 166 122% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.19 86% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 342GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124080032 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2637 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 8634158232 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41769 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 140 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 15 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 9162194974 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 6 6 188618 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 -140737488355298 (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 99505802329919 (F1) Unknown 100 253 90804898610075 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -55245869224739	86.8% Excellent	Read 159 Write 144 Mixed 120 105% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.32 106% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 144GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51451192 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2347 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25002030 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 41737 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 141 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 6 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 54 9111863325 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 348203 (C2) HDA temperature 29 46 -140737488355299 (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 128269198309691 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42710593206315 (F2) Unknown 100 253 18681090662993	82.2% Excellent	Read 127 Write 160 Mixed 132 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.37 91% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3600 C16 2x8GB 11,301 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.1% Good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 23.9 MC Mixed 19.4 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 21.4 SC Mixed 20.3 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 124%

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Gaming 112%

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Desktop 96%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 102%

UFO

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	294x

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 $95Bench 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	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 $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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