Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


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 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	101% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170706
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	May 20 '18 at 20:16
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	34%

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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 i5-7600K-$170 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 131 2-Core 266 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 482 65% 483 Pts	64-Core 504 31% 504 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Nvidia(10DE 11D7) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.3% Good	Lighting 76.8 Reflection 77.5 Parallax 66.3 63% 73.5 fps	MRender 71.4 Gravity 70 Splatting 73.3 59% 71.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2387 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 418 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 63 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7924541333	101% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 404 Mixed 413 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 78.1 4K Mixed 40.7 138% 49.4 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 254 DQ Mixed 104 132% 238 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 113GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8498 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1566 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (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 70 52 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 93 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22433968951	103% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 404 Mixed 419 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 31.2 4K Write 63.3 4K Mixed 46.3 140% 46.9 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 117 139% 245 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 68GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9871 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1760 (B1) Unknown 94 94 72 (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 70 51 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 207 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14915700169	83.5% Excellent	Read 482 Write 340 Mixed 337 86% 386 MB/s	4K Read 32 4K Write 55 4K Mixed 20.5 104% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 67.2 109% 214 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 108%
Seagate IronWolf 2TB (2016)-$65 8,291 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 903GB free Firmware: SC60 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 155068152 (03) Spinup time 97 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 883 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8897132 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3011 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 562 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 93 93 7 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 521863198 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 889 (C2) HDA temperature 30 41 64424509470 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	77.1% Very good	Read 142 Write 127 Mixed 112 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.21 71% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 100%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 7,241 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 648GB free, PID 3312 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	50.6% Above average	Read 132 Write 129 Mixed 68.1 135% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 0.21 44% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 50.6% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$45 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68% Good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 25.1 MC Mixed 20.8 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 23.5 SC Mixed 21.5 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 80%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 - $206

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	719x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	459x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	207x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	297x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	293x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	184x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	86x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $159Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	53x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	51x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	127x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $35Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	101x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	42x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $871

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $35	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16