Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.7% 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	69.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	18.3 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171030
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 06:06
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 79.8 1-Core 133 2-Core 268 87% 160 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 864 83% 687 Pts	64-Core 1,011 63% 1,011 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Gigabyte(1458 3793) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (75^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.7% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 135 Parallax 125 102% 128 fps	MRender 93.4 Gravity 117 Splatting 99.3 84% 103 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$160 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 419GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 162 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 48 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 56 56 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 291355001	115% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 414 Mixed 425 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 92.3 4K Mixed 49.2 178% 61.6 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 130 151% 263 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
Adata Premier SP550 120GB-$45 22,057 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: O1230C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 806 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 955 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 91 (A3) Unknown 100 100 61 (A4) Unknown 100 100 47041 (A5) Unknown 100 100 81 (A6) Unknown 100 100 7 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 98 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 2 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 50 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 115517 (F2) Unknown 100 100 191803 (F5) Unknown 100 100 94082	69.9% Good	Read 489 Write 199 Mixed 228 67% 305 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 55.4 4K Mixed 20.6 99% 34.8 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 45.2 75% 147 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 91%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 472GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54936920 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1343 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 27378638 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3113 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 826 (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 57 51 723058731 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11071 (C2) HDA temperature 43 49 60129542187 (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 -127521873982137 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11869539063 (F2) Unknown 100 253 779964815859	78.4% Very good	Read 110 Write 162 Mixed 116 97% 130 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.61 188% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 110%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$30 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 419GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 68 (03) Spinup time 140 140 12895912095 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3113 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 36 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3824 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 942 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 3196 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 3196 (C2) HDA temperature 139 139 210454315051 (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	92.9% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 143 Mixed 149 118% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 0.32 4K Mixed 0.22 62% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 92.9% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown DDR4 3000 2OZ 029E CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 04CB DDR4 3000 2OZ 029E CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 24GB 21 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2600, 2600, 2600, 2600 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.2% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 23.3 MC Mixed 18.7 62% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.1 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 19.7 54% 18.9 GB/s	Latency 80.8 50% 80.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 93%

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Gaming 112%

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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	2,874x
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	752x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	357x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	294x

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	168x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 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	127x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,049

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