Gigabyte GA-Z370 AORUS Gaming K3-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	122% 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.
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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming K3
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z370 AORUS Gaming K3-CF (all builds)
Memory	9.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180301
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	May 22 '18 at 02:44
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 88.6 1-Core 139 2-Core 279 93% 169 Pts	4-Core 549 8-Core 862 87% 706 Pts	64-Core 1126 70% 1126 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 188 Parallax 185 136% 180 fps	MRender 119 Gravity 165 Splatting 118 109% 134 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17736 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 612 (B1) Unknown 98 98 23 (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 37 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 52 (EB) Unknown 99 99 103 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23704990511
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 18GB free Firmware: Z33130RL 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 0 100 3438 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 788 (A5) Unknown 100 100 8465531472073 (A6) Unknown 100 100 27 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 46 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 40 (AE) Unknown 100 100 338 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 61 38 266287972391 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 4 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3216968123117 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 9659 (EA) Unknown 100 100 21033 (F1) Unknown 253 253 15502 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12692 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	68.5% Good	Read 508 Write 259 Mixed 409 87% 392 MB/s	4K Read 22.2 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 6.3 81% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 168 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 0.06 62% 147 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 86%
WD WD10JUCT-63J6SY0 1TB 3,317 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 931GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 184 180 1766 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1800 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 166 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 93 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1719 (C2) HDA temperature 112 99 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	62.7% Good	Read 108 Write 111 Mixed 107 82% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.92 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 62%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 834GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 87692512 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5153 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 53 38711434042 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10762 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2645 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 917518 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 38 5176074567718 (C2) HDA temperature 38 62 60129542182 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 20 87692512 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -122964913664894 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3356074942 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2161842687	63.7% Good	Read 117 Write 105 Mixed 104 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.85 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.56 122% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 63.7% Great: 68%
Seagate ST2000VM003-1CT164 2TB 16,094 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 789GB free Firmware: SC12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 223682512 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6652 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 115394967 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9484 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 997 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 722 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 588578851 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 356 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6672 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 47244640291 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	75.9% Very good	Read 132 Write 133 Mixed 115 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.14 63% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GB 5,673 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.7% Good	MC Read 25.6 MC Write 25.9 MC Mixed 21 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 23.2 65% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 68.9 58% 68.9 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 100%

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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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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