Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 143% UFO	Desktop 109% UFO	Workstation 136% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 108%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	132% 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	261% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171212
Uptime	4.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 10:42
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (72^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 5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 160 2-Core 318 105% 192 Pts	4-Core 637 8-Core 1,082 104% 859 Pts	64-Core 1,328 82% 1,328 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2952 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 216 Parallax 180 149% 193 fps	MRender 134 Gravity 178 Splatting 136 121% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 287GB free Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 471 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 160 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 75 66 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1752430657	108% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 29.3 163% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 286 DQ Mixed 29 100% 221 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 134%
HFS250G32TND-N1A2A 250GB 5,131 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 192GB free Firmware: 30000P10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1121 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 517 (64) Unknown 100 100 867573 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 99 99 13 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 28 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 2 (B2) Unknown 100 100 19 (B3) Unknown 100 100 190 (B4) Unknown 100 100 6690 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 21 0 34361966613 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 253 0 (C4) Reallocation count 253 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 91 0 (D4) Unknown 253 253 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 599 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1221 (F2) Unknown 100 100 715 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 67831	78.7% Very good	Read 519 Write 335 Mixed 354 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 18.6 120% 43.7 MB/s	DQ Read 38 DQ Write 83.7 DQ Mixed 24.9 29% 48.9 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 106%
Samsung PM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 99,566 User benchmarks, average bench 177% 110GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXB7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	261% Outstanding	Read 2,700 Write 1,071 Mixed 1,243 365% 1,672 MB/s	4K Read 64.7 4K Write 153 4K Mixed 68.7 267% 95.3 MB/s	DQ Read 66.2 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 39.8 55% 96.4 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 261% Great: 236%
Toshiba P300 1TB-$67 318,836 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 772GB free Firmware: MS2OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 72 (03) Spinup time 124 124 12897026233 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4029 (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 4789 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2197 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4029 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4029 (C2) HDA temperature 250 250 188979216408 (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	91.2% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 138 Mixed 159 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.22 94% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$78 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 40.5 MC Write 40.9 MC Mixed 31.5 108% 37.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 44.8 SC Mixed 33.8 96% 33.6 GB/s	Latency 48.1 83% 48.1 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 107%

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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 $127Bench 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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Total price: $1,062

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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