Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	92.1% 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	128% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	Gigabyte Z270M-D3H
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H-CF (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170113
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	May 03 '18 at 13:34
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	43%

PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	76% Very good	Memory 82.2 1-Core 104 2-Core 213 75% 133 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 537 57% 457 Pts	64-Core 635 39% 635 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 360C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.31 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	92.1% Outstanding	Lighting 96.6 Reflection 147 Parallax 152 79% 132 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 180 Splatting 129 118% 145 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SSD 250GB 2,741 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3113 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 554 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 58 49 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5977710075	128% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 490 Mixed 496 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 56.9 200% 72.3 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 335 DQ Mixed 137 162% 281 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 126%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 357GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 969 (03) Spinup time 175 172 4250 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 638 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 3 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3068 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 494 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 48 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 185 185 47074 (C2) HDA temperature 110 102 37 (C4) Reallocation count 197 197 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 199 199 396 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 199 199 398 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 199 199 588	61.8% Good	Read 109 Write 106 Mixed 104 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.28 111% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 84%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x4GB 5,673 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.8% Good	MC Read 24.6 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 22.3 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 14.1 SC Write 25.1 SC Mixed 19.6 56% 19.6 GB/s	Latency 76.5 52% 76.5 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 100%

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Gaming 52%

Yacht

Desktop 89%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 45%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270M-D3H-CF

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	194x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	132x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	130x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	89x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	79x
HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake)IntelBench 5%, 153,031 samples	48x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	30x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	15x
WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 1TBWDCBench 98%, 74,123 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	29x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	25x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	18x

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Value: 83% - Excellent

Total price: $508

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 $46

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