Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	94.1% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	7.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171030
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '18 at 11:36
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	RUS-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing as expected (52^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-$198 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 135 2-Core 248 91% 160 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 826 76% 636 Pts	64-Core 1,029 64% 1,029 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6178) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 113 Parallax 96.2 82% 103 fps	MRender 95.7 Gravity 96 Splatting 97.5 79% 96.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 118GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1429 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 30 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 57 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 15 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3270509105	94.1% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 402 Mixed 414 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 40.4 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 26.2 142% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 42.5 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 103 96% 139 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 134%
OCZ VERTEX3 60GB 3,574 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 19GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 109 24657878 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 125722282706679 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 437 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 484 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 24657878 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 8 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 24657878 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 24657878 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15060 (EA) Unknown 0 0 16576 (F1) Unknown 0 0 16576 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13379	49.6% Average	Read 262 Write 79.3 Mixed 123 34% 155 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 79 4K Mixed 16.6 104% 40.9 MB/s	DQ Read 97.9 DQ Write 80.5 DQ Mixed 31 39% 69.8 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 888GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 40700240 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1714 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 22131515722 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 18393 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1753 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 14 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 572063773 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 335 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 9490 (C2) HDA temperature 29 51 60129542173 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 97 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 97 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 49147310786260 (F1) Unknown 100 253 100394422465 (F2) Unknown 100 253 83177460160	107% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 189 Mixed 175 138% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.3 97% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 112%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 457GB free Firmware: 2AR20003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 86 82 4455 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2110 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 12466 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 24 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1462 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 20 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 49 219044249628 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 26 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 24 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 404950	48.4% Average	Read 77.7 Write 90.9 Mixed 90.7 65% 86.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.26 86% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 48.4% Great: 59%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 634GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 130 129 6475 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6248 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3052 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 538 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 57 57 430068 (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 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	44.4% Average	Read 75.4 Write 79.3 Mixed 85.3 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.22 65% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 44.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 20,017 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	96.1% Outstanding	MC Read 37.2 MC Write 36.4 MC Mixed 27 96% 33.5 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 37.2 SC Mixed 29.9 85% 29.8 GB/s	Latency 47.5 84% 47.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 96.1% Great: 122%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $221

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $198Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,868x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	209x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	749x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	356x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	293x

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 $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	157x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	184x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $56Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	173x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	127x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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