Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 126% UFO	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 115% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 98.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	125% 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	233% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	54.8 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171116
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Jan 10 '18 at 03:35
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 139 2-Core 267 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 541 8-Core 840 85% 690 Pts	64-Core 1,121 69% 1,121 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	125% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 196 Parallax 186 141% 185 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 166 Splatting 121 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 931GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q 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 99 99 33 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 9 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 60 58 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3915850622	112% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 412 Mixed 416 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 94.8 4K Mixed 48.4 179% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 128 129% 206 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%
Toshiba HG5d Q Series 256GB-$225 3,223 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 238GB free Firmware: HTRAN101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^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 0 (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 100 100 23842 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 799 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2223 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 185 185 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 353 (C2) HDA temperature 65 54 197569675299 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	97.4% Outstanding	Read 476 Write 484 Mixed 499 109% 486 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 23.4 120% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 304 DQ Mixed 180 169% 261 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.4% Great: 106%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 61GB free Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	319% Outstanding	Read 2,797 Write 1,866 Mixed 1,812 478% 2,158 MB/s	4K Read 49.6 4K Write 151 4K Mixed 55.5 226% 85.2 MB/s	DQ Read 572 DQ Write 527 DQ Mixed 220 256% 440 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 319% Great: 353%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 43GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	233% Outstanding	Read 2,702 Write 1,049 Mixed 1,248 364% 1,666 MB/s	4K Read 53.8 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 26.8 180% 66.9 MB/s	DQ Read 55.4 DQ Write 358 DQ Mixed 23.1 72% 145 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 233% Great: 236%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 429GB free Firmware: 01.01L01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 219 171 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1397 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23150 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 706 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 269 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3183 (C2) HDA temperature 110 104 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	78.9% Very good	Read 153 Write 122 Mixed 133 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 3.16 4K Mixed 0.34 120% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB-$351 1,197 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 41.2 MC Mixed 33.2 107% 37.5 GB/s	SC Read 23.3 SC Write 45.5 SC Mixed 32.2 96% 33.7 GB/s	Latency 50.8 79% 50.8 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 172%

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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 $90Bench 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