Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 114% UFO


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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	129% 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	237% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171030
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '18 at 18:26
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

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 i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	Memory 93.5 1-Core 137 2-Core 274 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 539 8-Core 857 86% 698 Pts	64-Core 1,122 70% 1,122 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Zotac(19DA 1471) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2800 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 175 Reflection 213 Parallax 209 143% 199 fps	MRender 137 Gravity 188 Splatting 132 123% 152 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$92 154,949 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 139GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	237% Outstanding	Read 2,520 Write 1,209 Mixed 1,445 379% 1,725 MB/s	4K Read 60.4 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 34.1 198% 71 MB/s	DQ Read 64.1 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 138 94% 113 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 237% Great: 280%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 67GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7079 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 947 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 69 54 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13541404768	106% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 411 Mixed 418 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 45.3 4K Write 97.6 4K Mixed 27.4 156% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 27.6 102% 226 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 57GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11507 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1653 (B1) Unknown 90 90 110 (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 72 58 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 84 (F1) Unknown 99 99 50656377125	86.4% Excellent	Read 505 Write 343 Mixed 354 89% 401 MB/s	4K Read 43.7 4K Write 76.2 4K Mixed 21.8 134% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 43.9 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 21.3 51% 100 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 118%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 100 253 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 15 (C2) HDA temperature 122 119 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	81.4% Excellent	Read 142 Write 142 Mixed 130 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.13 4K Mixed 0.2 98% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 163GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 113596704 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3484 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 12961435646 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11508 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1618 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 68 59 538378272 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 42 42 116255 (C2) HDA temperature 32 41 21474836512 (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 -54301271517650 (F1) Unknown 100 253 45746663961 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44316384109	91.2% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 143 Mixed 138 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.25 82% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 2,584 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.6% Good	MC Read 27 MC Write 26 MC Mixed 19.5 69% 24.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 25.1 SC Mixed 22.6 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 61 66% 61 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.6% Great: 119%

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Gaming 112%

UFO

Desktop 96%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 102%

UFO

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $221

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,881x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	210x
Core i7-8086KIntel $399Bench 91%, 38,086 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	753x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	359x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	295x

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	169x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	158x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	186x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	173x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	128x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,049

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