Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 98.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	208% 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 Z370 AORUS Gaming 5
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170922
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 15 '18 at 14:16
Run Duration	279 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^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-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 134 2-Core 273 94% 168 Pts	4-Core 535 8-Core 880 86% 707 Pts	64-Core 1129 70% 1129 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 36FE) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2826 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 194GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	208% Outstanding	Read 1,904 Write 903 Mixed 1,157 291% 1,321 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 133 4K Mixed 47.8 194% 73.8 MB/s	DQ Read 472 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 185 195% 325 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 208% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 311GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 187130375 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 14195 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 82 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 19236056 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17300 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4908 (B7) Unknown 1 1 449 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 81606018640 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 47 4817092639 (C2) HDA temperature 31 53 47244640287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 24 15 187130375 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 1 8175 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 49387828961298 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1671116559 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3831144165	51.2% Above average	Read 96.8 Write 81.5 Mixed 88.8 67% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 235GB free Firmware: CC37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 96 158453315 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 10001 (05) Reallocated sector count 88 88 517 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 366223216 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22127 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4862 (B7) Unknown 60 60 40 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 97 146031509826 (BD) vendor-specific 71 71 29 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 4783407133 (C2) HDA temperature 29 51 38654705693 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 36 22 158453315 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2167 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -118347823807387 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1390609003 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3548349345	49.7% Average	Read 96.9 Write 76.3 Mixed 75 62% 82.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.17 4K Mixed 0.34 87% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 49.7% Great: 68%
Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB-$95 20,246 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 28GB free Firmware: 4.AAA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1717 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 177326887 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8063 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1720 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 264 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 47 889913373 (C2) HDA temperature 29 53 47244640285 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 57 134874083 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	55.7% Above average	Read 96 Write 98.1 Mixed 86.8 70% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.4 85% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 54%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 18GB free Firmware: HP73 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 99 7776 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3240 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 616 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4795116 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7176 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2479 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1306865580 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 58 471597084 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 24 7776 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 616 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	68% Good	Read 117 Write 120 Mixed 94.8 83% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.33 79% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 68% Great: 88%
ST500DM0 02-1BD142 500GB 70 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 189GB free, PID 2329 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	28.9% Poor	Read 12.6 Write 40.6 Mixed 12.3 31% 21.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 5.89 4K Mixed 0.41 217% 2.33 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 28.9% Great: 27%
WD 2500AAK External 250GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 20% 157GB free, PID 1003 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	19.1% Very poor	Read 36.1 Write 35.8 Mixed 35 46% 35.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.31 78% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 19.1% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB-$248 5,582 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3600 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 40.4 MC Write 42.4 MC Mixed 29.4 107% 37.4 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 28.9 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 48.4 83% 48.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 112%

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Desktop 96%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Gaming 5 - $226

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,933x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	540x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	270x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	479x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	304x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	224x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	149x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	121x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	110x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	154x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	141x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	84x

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Value: 81% - Excellent

Total price: $1,035

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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