Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	71.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z270X-Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming (all builds)
Memory	15.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170126
Uptime	21.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '18 at 12:38
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	39%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Memory 84.2 1-Core 135 2-Core 266 89% 162 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 664 70% 561 Pts	64-Core 747 46% 747 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 151 Parallax 129 114% 140 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 134 Splatting 109 97% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 343GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4207 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 748 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 71 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3131695044	116% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 414 Mixed 420 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 50.7 185% 63.9 MB/s	DQ Read 333 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 126 140% 238 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 131%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 61GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4267 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 767 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 62 34 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6658131947	114% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 412 Mixed 420 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 94.3 4K Mixed 49 181% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 125 140% 240 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 131%
Spcc Solid State Disk 240GB 15,968 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 51GB free (System drive) Firmware: V2.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3941 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 812 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 52190 (A5) Unknown 100 100 43 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7 (A7) Unknown 100 100 26 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 48 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8202 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8083 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	71.9% Very good	Read 492 Write 380 Mixed 426 96% 433 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 71.6 4K Mixed 3.33 84% 34.1 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 3.88 42% 96.9 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 582GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 193646256 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1942 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13138716 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4239 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 708 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 70 60 505085982 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 23551 (C2) HDA temperature 30 40 81604378654 (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 84597970830940 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20290373291 (F2) Unknown 100 253 76083852834	87.5% Excellent	Read 165 Write 140 Mixed 149 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.23 80% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.2% Good	MC Read 23.8 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 22.4 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 26.1 SC Mixed 20.9 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 73.1 55% 73.1 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 69.2% Great: 110%

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Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

Battleship

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming - $165

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	982x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	325x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	255x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	242x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	210x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	85x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	64x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	56x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	174x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	70x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	40x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $958

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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