Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 108% UFO	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 109%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	87.5% 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	263% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180122
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 06 '18 at 01:03
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Memory 98.6 1-Core 160 2-Core 318 105% 192 Pts	4-Core 636 8-Core 1,078 104% 857 Pts	64-Core 1,336 83% 1,336 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3230) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1572 MHz, MLim: 1940 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 107 92% 112 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 102 Splatting 90.7 79% 97.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 153GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	263% Outstanding	Read 2,918 Write 1,354 Mixed 1,454 418% 1,909 MB/s	4K Read 56.7 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 32.6 194% 71.6 MB/s	DQ Read 58.2 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 31.3 63% 120 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 263% Great: 254%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 37GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 2885 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 338 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 78 58 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7644548773
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
PNY CS1311 240GB-$78 26,547 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 48GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6011 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 591 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 162 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1376311 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 56 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 79 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5250	79.5% Very good	Read 523 Write 360 Mixed 356 91% 413 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 70.7 4K Mixed 10.5 100% 38 MB/s	DQ Read 216 DQ Write 158 DQ Mixed 43.5 71% 139 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 97%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3600 C15 2x8GB 6,416 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.5% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 22.4 MC Mixed 18.3 62% 21.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 24.3 SC Mixed 23.2 64% 22.5 GB/s	Latency 43.4 92% 43.4 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 134%

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Gaming 112%

UFO

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 $134	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