Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	110% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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System	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming (all builds)
Memory	1.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171031
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 23 '18 at 08:18
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	76%

PC Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	70.3% Very good	Memory 60.8 1-Core 121 2-Core 236 74% 139 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 699 69% 563 Pts	64-Core 1,070 66% 1,070 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 367GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 179 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 43 (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 66 64 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1534108218	110% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 400 Mixed 417 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 83.2 4K Mixed 46.7 168% 57.5 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 129 145% 249 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 227GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 474 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 195 (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 70 43 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 6 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2073980934	85.7% Excellent	Read 498 Write 231 Mixed 357 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 66.1 4K Mixed 26.1 131% 44.4 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 223 DQ Mixed 83.1 118% 223 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 118%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$38 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 111GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 51539607552 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 72378788873759 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 399 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 379 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 66 47248965660 (C2) HDA temperature 28 66 47248965660 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 51539607552 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 51539607552 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 51539607552 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2006 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1646 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1646 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2711	43.1% Average	Read 175 Write 96.8 Mixed 105 28% 126 MB/s	4K Read 19.1 4K Write 84.8 4K Mixed 11.4 88% 38.4 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 23 40% 79.9 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC9D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 174832048 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1754 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4216910 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2557 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 647 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 74 74 26 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 37 1679853617183 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 183 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8987 (C2) HDA temperature 31 63 47244640287 (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 9612136809205 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3872148259537 (F2) Unknown 100 253 778141934768	93.5% Outstanding	Read 149 Write 178 Mixed 149 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.19 88% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 113%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 422GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 130 120 6483 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1204 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3262 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 853 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 629 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 46653 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 31 (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	53.1% Above average	Read 114 Write 70.7 Mixed 93.7 70% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.23 76% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 53.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Value DDR4 2133 C15 1x8GB 3,500 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	30.3% Below average	MC Read 12.5 MC Write 11.2 MC Mixed 9.5 32% 11.1 GB/s	SC Read 5.2 SC Write 7.7 SC Mixed 6.1 18% 6.33 GB/s	Latency 125 32% 125 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 30.3% Great: 43%

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Desktop 93%

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Workstation 85%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming - $170

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,423x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	670x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	271x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	363x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	314x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	227x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	105x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	99x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	93x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	131x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	93x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	92x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $844

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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