Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 93.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	109% 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	116% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	4.3 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161124
Uptime	10.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 04 '17 at 23:24
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.6% Outstanding	Memory 95.4 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 92% 166 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 739 77% 617 Pts	64-Core 737 46% 737 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 152 Parallax 143 117% 146 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 138 Splatting 112 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 234GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4106 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 373 (B1) Unknown 99 99 14 (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 71 59 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11929423643	119% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 51.4 193% 66.9 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 131 146% 251 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 166GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4932 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 589 (B1) Unknown 99 99 17 (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 68 54 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 83 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6845714632	118% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 417 Mixed 424 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 99.4 4K Mixed 49.3 189% 65.7 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 112 138% 246 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 27GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6168 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 752 (B1) Unknown 89 89 216 (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 64 46 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 89 (F1) Unknown 99 99 96953587450	116% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 419 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 96.7 4K Mixed 49.5 184% 64 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 105 133% 239 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 458GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 16456960 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4480 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 12980946278 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8137 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1322 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 10 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 54 605093915 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 265 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29977 (C2) HDA temperature 27 46 51539607579 (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 -81286551039668 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29835438142 (F2) Unknown 100 253 28825019002	93.9% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 135 Mixed 141 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.32 84% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$27 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 281GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119189128 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5069 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2869455 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8186 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1323 (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 73 57 504430619 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 177 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 39227 (C2) HDA temperature 27 43 51539607579 (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 105351252806205 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2268387085 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2152136964	81.3% Excellent	Read 147 Write 137 Mixed 125 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.36 103% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x4GB-$47 29,751 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 2667 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	49.1% Average	MC Read 17.5 MC Write 16.7 MC Mixed 13.4 45% 15.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 18.3 SC Mixed 17.2 48% 16.8 GB/s	Latency 56 72% 56 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 98%

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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	711x
Core i5-7600KIntel $184Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	454x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	206x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	293x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	290x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	183x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	84x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $159Bench 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 $45Bench 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: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $713

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16