Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	98.1% 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.

High background CPU (26%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161124
Uptime	1.4 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '17 at 03:14
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 129 2-Core 259 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 435 8-Core 623 66% 529 Pts	64-Core 727 45% 727 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E2) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2902 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 183 Reflection 198 Parallax 194 150% 192 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 177 Splatting 123 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 224GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1072 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 132 (B1) Unknown 98 98 34 (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 65 60 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 35763000113	98.1% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 398 Mixed 412 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 86.7 4K Mixed 24.5 142% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 75.6 110% 204 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 23GB free Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10216 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 433 (B1) Unknown 90 90 550 (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 47 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 69447673752	97.9% Outstanding	Read 522 Write 249 Mixed 320 80% 364 MB/s	4K Read 36.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 38.4 161% 60.5 MB/s	DQ Read 338 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 114 134% 234 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 119%
Hitachi HDS721032CLA362 320GB-$150 10,092 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 137GB free Firmware: JPFOA3EA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 118 118 163 (03) Spinup time 117 117 12897681603 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 8756 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 140 30 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 28197 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5477 (C0) Power-off retract count 92 92 10230 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 10230 (C2) HDA temperature 222 222 240518889499 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	27.7% Poor	Read 49.1 Write 47.2 Mixed 46.5 36% 47.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.22 55% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 27.7% Great: 50%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$51 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 109GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 149590720 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3863 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96210965 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 9787 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1682 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 144 (BD) vendor-specific 61 61 39 (BE) vendor-specific 71 63 487915549 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 55 55 91595 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 51539607581 (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 25172803327817 (F1) Unknown 100 253 54275627657 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1066623127621	92.5% Outstanding	Read 143 Write 179 Mixed 155 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.18 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	77% Very good	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 24.2 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 25.3 SC Mixed 23 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 58.6 68% 58.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 104%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270-Gaming K3 - $206

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	706x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	450x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	204x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	290x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	287x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	181x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	83x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	53x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	50x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	126x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	99x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $39Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	42x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $731

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