Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 130% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


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 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 96%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	136% 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	64.3% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	7.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161124
Uptime	12.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 16:12
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	13%

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 i7-7700K-$242 712,312 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 (99^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 140 2-Core 285 95% 173 Pts	4-Core 533 8-Core 745 80% 639 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 204 Parallax 208 157% 202 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 188 Splatting 133 121% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 100GB free Firmware: Z33130RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 664 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 280 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17184915482 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 200 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 55 193273528357 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 34360328201 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 151 (EA) Unknown 100 100 239 (F1) Unknown 253 253 228 (F2) Unknown 253 253 83 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	75.4% Very good	Read 498 Write 442 Mixed 432 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 21.3 4K Write 50.5 4K Mixed 6.86 68% 26.2 MB/s	DQ Read 161 DQ Write 264 DQ Mixed 7.65 64% 144 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 86%
V Series SATA SSD 240GB 4,398 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: V3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1305 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 436 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 4229 (A5) Unknown 100 100 15 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 9 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2767 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2203 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	64.3% Good	Read 458 Write 394 Mixed 420 95% 424 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 37.5 4K Mixed 2.82 56% 20.7 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 3.23 44% 99.8 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 106GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219741192 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5760 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 61676715 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 17623 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2677 (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 71 58 9077915677 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 456 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 7 7 187695 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 -140737488355299 (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 -76179834921972 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22643627256 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22113931160	91.7% Outstanding	Read 155 Write 164 Mixed 141 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.28 94% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 112%
Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 320GB 110 User benchmarks, average bench 15% 201GB free, PID 2329 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	18.6% Very poor	Read 41.2 Write 41.9 Mixed 7.52 36% 30.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.3 49% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 18.6% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Samsung M378A1G43EB1-CRC 2x8GB 433 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	82.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 25.5 83% 29.2 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 31.7 SC Mixed 24.6 72% 25 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 111%

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Workstation 61%

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

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 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 $95Bench 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: $723

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