Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 136% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 126% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
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	236% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	19.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171030
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Apr 26 '18 at 07:00
Run Duration	251 Seconds
Run User	SGP-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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-$193 746,287 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 (98^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 89.7 1-Core 154 2-Core 312 100% 185 Pts	4-Core 605 8-Core 917 94% 761 Pts	64-Core 1,235 76% 1,235 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 360C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2952 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	136% Outstanding	Lighting 193 Reflection 204 Parallax 192 157% 196 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 192 Splatting 131 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 136% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 270GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	236% Outstanding	Read 1,933 Write 1,442 Mixed 1,451 357% 1,609 MB/s	4K Read 47.5 4K Write 151 4K Mixed 36.7 199% 78.4 MB/s	DQ Read 50.3 DQ Write 481 DQ Mixed 36.4 96% 189 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 236% Great: 353%
OCZ Agility 3 240GB-$199 10,165 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 96GB free Firmware: 2.22 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 9112107 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 6425271089703 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3175 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 427 (B1) Unknown 0 0 21 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9112107 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9112107 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9112107 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 43192 (EA) Unknown 0 0 87341 (F1) Unknown 0 0 87341 (F2) Unknown 0 0 51005	34.6% Below average	Read 204 Write 135 Mixed 113 33% 151 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 12.7 4K Mixed 9.56 53% 14.8 MB/s	DQ Read 89.8 DQ Write 34.8 DQ Mixed 19.8 26% 48.1 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 66%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 71GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7016 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1487 (B1) Unknown 97 97 51 (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 68 57 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 5 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35778108831	110% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 412 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 47.1 185% 65.2 MB/s	DQ Read 47.8 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 103 98% 145 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
Hitachi HDN726060ALE614 6TB 1,326 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 5TB free Firmware: APGNW7JH Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 104 (03) Spinup time 136 136 38686425567 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 497 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 745 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 161 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 505 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 505 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 193274904613 (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	91.6% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 149 Mixed 169 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 1.05 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.53 137% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 121%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 1TB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 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 136 136 82 (03) Spinup time 126 126 51579650659 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2013 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4336 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1015 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2027 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2027 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 201864839205 (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 82	65.3% Good	Read 121 Write 106 Mixed 106 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 1.07 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.22 101% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 65.3% Great: 92%
HGST Deskstar NAS 4TB-$60 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 776GB free Firmware: MJAOA5E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 80 (03) Spinup time 128 128 51579060825 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2245 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4313 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1015 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2258 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2258 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 214749741092 (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	65.6% Good	Read 114 Write 114 Mixed 86.8 78% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.22 97% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 92%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$81 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 247GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 176 5991 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3291 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9702 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1853 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 943 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15759 (C2) HDA temperature 120 110 30 (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	58.7% Above average	Read 119 Write 86.5 Mixed 105 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 0.32 4K Mixed 0.26 64% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB-$102 110,884 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.4% Good	MC Read 25.2 MC Write 25.8 MC Mixed 21.6 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 21.8 SC Mixed 15.7 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 67.7 59% 67.7 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 114%

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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 $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,896x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	211x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	184x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	760x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	360x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 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	170x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	159x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	187x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	173x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	128x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,056

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16