Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	12.7% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	246% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170706
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 08 '18 at 11:38
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	80.8% Excellent	Memory 87.8 1-Core 122 2-Core 220 82% 143 Pts	4-Core 397 8-Core 678 65% 538 Pts	64-Core 660 41% 660 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Gigabyte(1458 373A) CLim: 2164 MHz, MLim: 2078 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.13 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	12.7% Very poor	Lighting 3.13 Reflection 76 Parallax 64.8 3% 48 fps	MRender 27.5 Gravity 0.17 Splatting 76.1 32% 34.6 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 12.7% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	246% Outstanding	Read 2,588 Write 1,219 Mixed 1,401 381% 1,736 MB/s	4K Read 56.1 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 24.7 186% 70.7 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 141 161% 276 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 246% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 565GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 65 32149587 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1166 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1971801 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1040 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 295 (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 72 67 487915548 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1170 (C2) HDA temperature 28 15 64424509468 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 32149587 (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 -112644107271328 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1383590804 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1405939073	94.7% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 158 Mixed 130 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 1x16GB 5,915 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	39.6% Below average	MC Read 13.9 MC Write 13.8 MC Mixed 11.5 37% 13.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 13.1 SC Mixed 12.2 35% 12.3 GB/s	Latency 69.7 57% 69.7 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 39.6% Great: 44%

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

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 - $206

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	706x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	450x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	204x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	290x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	287x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	182x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	53x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	50x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	126x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	99x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	42x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $731

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 $184	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) $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