Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Tree trunk	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	10.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	89.6% 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 (38%). 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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170503
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '17 at 15:15
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 84.4 1-Core 153 2-Core 302 97% 180 Pts	4-Core 533 8-Core 561 72% 547 Pts	64-Core 574 36% 574 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 470-$126 94,030 User benchmarks, average bench 40% MSI(1462 3411) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	10.9% Very poor	Lighting 13.9 Reflection 14.2 Parallax 16.8 11% 14.9 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 13 Splatting 12.2 10% 12.1 fps
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 47%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9173 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2291 (B1) Unknown 90 90 116 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 43 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 150 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29240644605	89.6% Excellent	Read 488 Write 342 Mixed 336 86% 389 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 21.4 125% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 60.4 106% 210 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 764GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124070248 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6321 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19470320 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9093 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2284 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 42 120848449571 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 126 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 71 71 58008 (C2) HDA temperature 35 58 -140737488355293 (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 33071248182555 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8752606079 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9518876191	105% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 180 Mixed 182 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.91 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.42 117% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	51.2% Above average	MC Read 17.9 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 16.1 50% 17.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 15.1 44% 15.3 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 104%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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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 $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	708x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	451x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	204x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	291x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	287x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	183x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	53x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	50x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	127x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	99x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	42x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $711

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