Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 109% UFO	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 107%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	88.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	309% 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171212
Uptime	2.4 Days
Run Date	Feb 13 '18 at 23:32
Run Duration	217 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.85 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Memory 98.4 1-Core 156 2-Core 313 104% 189 Pts	4-Core 625 8-Core 1,034 101% 830 Pts	64-Core 1,302 81% 1,302 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 100 91% 109 fps	MRender 98.8 Gravity 102 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 230GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1680 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 162 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 64 48 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5087789409	118% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 411 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 52.1 190% 66.1 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 131 148% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 113GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10663 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1037 (B1) Unknown 99 99 21 (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 61 52 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 67 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9009684618	119% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 419 Mixed 423 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 47.6 4K Write 99.5 4K Mixed 50 189% 65.7 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 115 143% 254 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 111GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	309% Outstanding	Read 2,588 Write 1,701 Mixed 1,782 448% 2,024 MB/s	4K Read 52.4 4K Write 172 4K Mixed 69.7 259% 97.9 MB/s	DQ Read 533 DQ Write 437 DQ Mixed 228 241% 400 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 309% Great: 353%
Hitachi HDN726040ALE614 4TB 4,649 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 3TB free Firmware: APGNW7JH Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 112 (03) Spinup time 100 100 30064771072 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (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 67 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 146 146 201864970281 (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	104% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 174 Mixed 168 133% 176 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 3.48 4K Mixed 0.38 152% 1.65 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 113%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 167 165 6641 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 236 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5470 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 227 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2254 (C2) HDA temperature 115 108 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 4 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 563 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 199 199 598	46.1% Average	Read 112 Write 49.1 Mixed 69.5 58% 76.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 0.19 4K Mixed 0.11 52% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 101%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 4TB 883 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 783GB free, PID ab38 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	78% Very good	Read 191 Write 181 Mixed 163 227% 178 MB/s	4K Read 5.29 4K Write 3.13 4K Mixed 1.78 187% 3.4 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3466 C16 2x8GB-$253 5,267 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3466 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 41.1 MC Write 40 MC Mixed 28.2 104% 36.4 GB/s	SC Read 24.1 SC Write 41.8 SC Mixed 34.4 96% 33.4 GB/s	Latency 44.1 91% 44.1 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 115%

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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