Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 98.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78.7% 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	107% 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.

Run History

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Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180301
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 21 '18 at 04:19
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (49^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 4.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	98.6% Outstanding	Memory 89.6 1-Core 153 2-Core 303 99% 182 Pts	4-Core 578 8-Core 934 93% 756 Pts	64-Core 1241 77% 1241 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.7% Very good	Lighting 99.3 Reflection 114 Parallax 94.7 81% 103 fps	MRender 94.5 Gravity 99.3 Splatting 82.4 74% 92.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 314GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 4 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18607 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 52 (B1) Unknown 99 99 42 (B3) Unknown 99 99 4 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 4 (BB) vendor-specific 49 49 509434 (BE) vendor-specific 76 50 24 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 509434 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11835273868	107% Outstanding	Read 521 Write 492 Mixed 507 113% 507 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 41.3 144% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 267 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 23.3 79% 173 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 148 136 9600 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11396 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 46 45 40013 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 161 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 44 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12836 (C2) HDA temperature 125 102 27 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.3% Above average	Read 108 Write 98.6 Mixed 105 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.25 80% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMR16GX4M2D3200C16 2x8GB 849 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (0^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	31.7% Below average	MC Read 9.9 MC Write 10.4 MC Mixed 9.9 29% 10.1 GB/s	SC Read 9.1 SC Write 9.8 SC Mixed 10.2 28% 9.7 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 31.7% Great: 104%

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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 $182	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) $30	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