Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 91% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	112% 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	71.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

System	Gigabyte Z270X-Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161124
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 23:28
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 284 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 505 8-Core 801 80% 653 Pts	64-Core 800 50% 800 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 156 Parallax 146 121% 150 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 144 Splatting 115 102% 126 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX500 500GB-$55 237,241 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 465GB free Firmware: M3CR010 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 0 0 42 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 60 171798691880 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 8731168 (F7) Unknown 100 100 145305 (F8) Unknown 100 100 703	107% Outstanding	Read 528 Write 405 Mixed 425 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 39.2 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 32.3 156% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 70.7 122% 239 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 125%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 153GB free (System drive) Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 20586282 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -23167053583829 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2172 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 168 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 42 60132294685 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 60132294685 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20586282 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20586282 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20586282 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 4294967297 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19430 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11379 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11379 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18319 (F4) Unknown 98 98 196673617	71.5% Very good	Read 514 Write 182 Mixed 251 69% 316 MB/s	4K Read 21.2 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 19.3 119% 52.5 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 36.1 51% 88.4 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 85%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 188 178 7583 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4524 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6745 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1370 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 110 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 182 182 54329 (C2) HDA temperature 123 117 29 (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	79.5% Very good	Read 153 Write 124 Mixed 128 102% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.19 91% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 96%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 433GB free Firmware: GM4OA57A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 82 65536 (02) Throughput performance 133 100 139 (03) Spinup time 120 76 25791037754 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 9979 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 65548 (07) Seek error rate 100 99 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 100 29 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 42088 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 95 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 6064 (C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 10162 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 10162 (C2) HDA temperature 206 130 201864314909 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	47.9% Average	Read 83.2 Write 83.6 Mixed 86.3 64% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.46 97% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 47.9% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.3% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 25 MC Mixed 20.2 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 23.5 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 104%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	985x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	326x
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	212x

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 $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	56x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	174x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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: $949

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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