Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 141% UFO	Desktop 107% UFO	Workstation 133% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 106%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	131% 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	258% 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180403
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 06:59
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Memory 98.3 1-Core 155 2-Core 303 102% 185 Pts	4-Core 611 8-Core 1,025 100% 818 Pts	64-Core 1,300 80% 1,300 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 207 Parallax 198 148% 196 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 183 Splatting 134 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 195GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	258% Outstanding	Read 2,859 Write 1,258 Mixed 1,433 405% 1,850 MB/s	4K Read 52.2 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 31.4 182% 67.4 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 126 144% 248 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 258% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 98GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 15678 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1083 (B1) Unknown 91 91 175 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 56 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 134 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30768674076	99% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 416 Mixed 424 101% 454 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 91.4 4K Mixed 41.6 150% 55 MB/s	DQ Read 46.6 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 123 100% 136 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 115%
Kingston HyperX 120GB 3,401 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 81GB free Firmware: 526ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 30141206 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 -343597341616 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 225 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 303 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 37 42952097825 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 30141206 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 30141206 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 30141206 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 30297 (EA) Unknown 0 0 25972 (F1) Unknown 0 0 25972 (F2) Unknown 0 0 44488	63.2% Good	Read 490 Write 130 Mixed 179 58% 266 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 94.1 4K Mixed 12.9 100% 43.1 MB/s	DQ Read 174 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 45.3 64% 118 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 81%
Intel MEMPEK1W032GA 29GB 1,656 User benchmarks, average bench 263% 25GB free Firmware: K3110310 Max speed: Unknown Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	245% Outstanding	Read 1,319 Write 283 Mixed 469 149% 690 MB/s	4K Read 180 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 142 518% 148 MB/s	DQ Read 423 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 185 182% 294 MB/s
Poor: 188% ↑ This bench: 245% Great: 328%
WD Black 750GB (2008)-$140 11,698 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 530GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 36877 (03) Spinup time 188 172 3591 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10864 (05) Reallocated sector count 161 161 306 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 32 32 49801 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2813 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 805 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10058 (C2) HDA temperature 105 97 42 (C4) Reallocation count 1 1 275 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 189 15 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 188 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 199 124 286	50.6% Above average	Read 93 Write 83.5 Mixed 74.5 63% 83.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 3733 C17 Series 2x8GB 4,455 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3733 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	MC Read 44.5 MC Write 43.7 MC Mixed 30.6 113% 39.6 GB/s	SC Read 24.8 SC Write 46.4 SC Mixed 36.4 102% 35.9 GB/s	Latency 44.5 90% 44.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 116%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $221

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,881x
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	753x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	359x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	295x

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	169x
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	128x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,049

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 $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