Gigabyte GA-X299 AORUS Gaming 7

Performance Results

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Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.9% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X299 AORUS Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171228
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '20 at 17:52
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7800X-$216 22,334 User benchmarks, average bench 78% CPU0, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 82.4 1-Core 158 2-Core 316 99% 185 Pts	4-Core 531 8-Core 582 73% 556 Pts	64-Core 612 38% 612 Pts
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2900 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 456.71 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.9% Excellent	Lighting 97.4 Reflection 112 Parallax 91.3 79% 100 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 97.4 Splatting 116 93% 113 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 1,847 Write 1,161 Mixed 466 253% 1,158 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 182 4K Mixed 59.9 236% 94.5 MB/s	DQ Read 1,207 DQ Write 1,269 DQ Mixed 823 733% 1,100 MB/s
Poor: 142% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 28GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 492 Write 480 Mixed 366 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 58.2 209% 77.4 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 332 257% 352 MB/s
Poor: 71% Great: 124%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 450GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 144 141 141 142 143 143 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	95.3% Outstanding	Read 190 Write 200 Mixed 96.8 SusWrite 142 115% 157 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3.3 4K Mixed 1 214% 1.77 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x8GB 236,291 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2 of 8 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3500 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	71.3% Very good	MC Read 22.5 MC Write 35.6 MC Mixed 20.9 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.3 SC Write 26.2 SC Mixed 13.4 48% 17 GB/s	Latency 76.2 52% 76.2 ns
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 97%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X299 AORUS Gaming 7

CPU
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	124x
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	88x
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	33x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	97x
RTX 3090Nvidia $1,306Bench 210%, 158,856 samples	30x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	22x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	15x
960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $139Bench 266%, 63,520 samples	13x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $150Bench 241%, 38,097 samples	12x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	103x
4x16GBUnknownBench 98%, 9,153 samples	56x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	34x

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Value: 67% - Good

Total price: $903

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