Gigabyte GA-Z270-HD3P-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 107% UFO	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (96th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 4 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 98.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.5% 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	232% 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.

System	Gigabyte Z270-HD3P
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-HD3P-CF (all builds)
Memory	11.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180309
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '18 at 01:40
Run Duration	158 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (96^th 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 5.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 164 2-Core 320 106% 194 Pts	4-Core 570 8-Core 588 77% 579 Pts	64-Core 647 40% 647 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Gigabyte(1458 D000) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4973 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8.01% Terrible	Lighting 8.33 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 8.38 7% 9.65 fps	MRender 12.2 Gravity 7.5 Splatting 16.7 10% 12.1 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.01% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 114 Parallax 104 94% 111 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba HG6 256GB 4,588 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 477GB free Firmware: JURA0101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20607 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1533 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AD) Unknown 193 193 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 844 (C2) HDA temperature 71 59 176094773277 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 55% Great: 109%
Sandisk PLUS 480 GB 480GB 8,604 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 477GB free Firmware: UG3000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 866 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 504 (A5) Unknown 100 100 391 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 8 (A9) Unknown 100 100 762 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 466 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 55 236223201318 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1146760200459 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1410 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4404 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1823 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1886 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0
Poor: 29% Great: 57%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 2,277 Write 1,263 Mixed 1,195 347% 1,578 MB/s	4K Read 60.5 4K Write 147 4K Mixed 28.2 205% 78.4 MB/s	DQ Read 62 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 31.8 50% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 236%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB-$56 84,291 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3100 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	MC Read 34.2 MC Write 37.1 MC Mixed 29.2 96% 33.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 37.7 SC Mixed 31.4 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 49.8 80% 49.8 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 101%

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Gaming 53%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 45%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270-HD3P-CF - $120

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	367x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	251x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	141x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	155x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	130x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	98x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	61x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	29x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	28x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	68x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	45x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	24x

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Value: 84% - Excellent

Total price: $629

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $184	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