Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	123% 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	93.1% 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 (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180110
Uptime	1.5 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 09:10
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 140 2-Core 271 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 751 75% 610 Pts	64-Core 747 46% 747 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	123% Outstanding	Lighting 168 Reflection 198 Parallax 186 137% 184 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 166 Splatting 122 112% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Evo 250GB-$52 296,814 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 190GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 11 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 9 (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 55 53 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 196694777	93.1% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 404 Mixed 427 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 32.3 4K Write 73 4K Mixed 22.7 117% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 330 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 75.6 119% 228 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 128%
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 149GB free Firmware: 0C4005T2 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 237 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 6837 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 894 (64) Unknown 100 100 2991360 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 65 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 45 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 52 100 270583988276 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 237 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 123 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 237 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10702 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9219 (F2) Unknown 100 100 9592 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 7097	125% Outstanding	Read 1,078 Write 745 Mixed 840 197% 888 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 67.4 4K Mixed 16.5 99% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 30.5 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 17.9 58% 118 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 159%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 931GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 212865264 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 556 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15147406 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2200 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 495 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 55 639041573 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15524 (C2) HDA temperature 37 45 73014444069 (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 -19705309952365 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4857439787 (F2) Unknown 100 253 311660140219	105% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 192 Mixed 158 131% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 5.33 4K Mixed 0.99 245% 2.4 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 111%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 925GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 238197632 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5750 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 16283673 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9128 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1454 (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 63 54 622198821 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 194 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35822 (C2) HDA temperature 37 46 60129542181 (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 -81935091103838 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10546228776 (F2) Unknown 100 253 59909903603	116% Outstanding	Read 215 Write 190 Mixed 179 146% 195 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.23 93% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 7,253 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 29.6 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 21.9 SC Write 40.7 SC Mixed 30.9 89% 31.2 GB/s	Latency 52.6 76% 52.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 107%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 5 - $192

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	483x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	112x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	93x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	83x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	35x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 276%, 367,854 samples	35x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	31x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	32x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	23x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $994

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $185	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