Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	26.2% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1680 x 1050 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170922
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 21 '18 at 01:55
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$188 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 138 2-Core 270 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 535 8-Core 896 87% 716 Pts	64-Core 1139 70% 1139 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-Ti-$362 42,960 User benchmarks, average bench 26% EVGA(3842 3662) 2GB CLim: 1241 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	26.2% Poor	Lighting 31.2 Reflection 33.1 Parallax 39.3 25% 34.5 fps	MRender 39.9 Gravity 36.8 Splatting 27.7 28% 34.8 fps
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 26.2% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 305GB free (System drive) 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 98 98 5612 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 222 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 67 58 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23096359283
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Seagate IronWolf 8TB (2016)-$175 904 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 5.5TB free Firmware: SC61 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 199245227 (03) Spinup time 85 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 127 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 82148587 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 119928371809157 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 122 (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 66 60 572588066 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 182 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8885 (C2) HDA temperature 34 40 73014444066 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 199245227 (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 66735201846963 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4963708858 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1092734190
Poor: 31% Great: 106%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2.5TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10880 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 547 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 13672 (0A) Spinup retry count 110 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 394 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 409 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 319 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 12083 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 163209674781 (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 200 253 2 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 90 90 4200 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 291 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	92.8% Outstanding	Read 163 Write 159 Mixed 158 121% 160 MB/s	4K Read 4.49 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.34 265% 2.34 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 109%
Hitachi HDS724040ALE640 4TB-$465 6,270 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 991GB free Firmware: MJAOA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 132 132 51578405442 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1577 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 26792 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1577 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2698 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2698 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 180389806113 (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 200 200 0	62% Good	Read 111 Write 105 Mixed 104 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.23 80% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 91%
WD Black 3TB (2012)-$205 1,332 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 654GB free Firmware: 01.01L01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 145 140 11708 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1780 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 26856 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1557 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 167 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1612 (C2) HDA temperature 117 109 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	70.1% Very good	Read 119 Write 126 Mixed 130 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.52 114% 1 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$39 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.1% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 19.8 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 27.6 SC Mixed 21.9 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 109%

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Gaming 112%

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Desktop 96%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $221

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $188Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,871x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	209x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	751x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	357x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	293x

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 $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	157x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	184x
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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Total price: $1,065

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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