Gigabyte GA-Z370 AORUS Gaming K3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 86.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	131% 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	51.7% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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

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

System	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming K3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z370 AORUS Gaming K3-CF (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180301
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 16:36
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700-$200 349,567 User benchmarks, average bench 87% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	Memory 71.1 1-Core 138 2-Core 272 86% 160 Pts	4-Core 548 8-Core 801 84% 675 Pts	64-Core 965 60% 965 Pts
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 94%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	131% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 208 Parallax 199 147% 196 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 177 Splatting 135 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 131% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel SSDSC2BF360A5L 360GB 195 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 304GB free (System drive) Firmware: LUDi Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 35 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 26 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 5 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 26 100 64427327514 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C2) HDA temperature 26 100 64427327514 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 69 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 48 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 69 (F2) Unknown 100 100 65 (F9) Unknown 100 100 185	51.7% Above average	Read 511 Write 229 Mixed 301 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 17.1 4K Mixed 11.3 55% 16.4 MB/s	DQ Read 26.1 DQ Write 17.4 DQ Mixed 9.82 10% 17.8 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 51.7% Great: 63%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 147334896 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 26 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 219025 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 26 (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 75 59 420937753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 165 (C2) HDA temperature 25 41 60129542169 (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 1576252997642 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3981241477 (F2) Unknown 100 253 118655415
Poor: 63% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905625-065.A00G 1x16GB 818 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that an XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	34.9% Below average	MC Read 12.6 MC Write 13.4 MC Mixed 10.7 35% 12.2 GB/s	SC Read 7.5 SC Write 11 SC Mixed 8.8 26% 9.1 GB/s	Latency 98.8 40% 98.8 ns
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 34.9% Great: 43%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 86%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z370 AORUS Gaming K3-CF

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	402x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	288x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	163x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	126x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	114x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	40x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	33x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	62x
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBKingstonBench 86%, 239,203 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	28x

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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $672

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