Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 97.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	298% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	29.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171212
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 10 '18 at 05:22
Run Duration	207 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$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 (93^rd percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	Memory 91.8 1-Core 145 2-Core 279 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 551 8-Core 931 90% 741 Pts	64-Core 1144 71% 1144 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 93% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 100 960GB-$310 1,128 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 790GB free Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2599 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 378 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 141 (C2) HDA temperature 67 36 274879348769	62.3% Good	Read 478 Write 181 Mixed 279 69% 313 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 56.4 4K Mixed 7.39 75% 29.1 MB/s	DQ Read 324 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 35.9 84% 179 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 89%
Mushkin MKNSSDTR1TB-3D 1TB 382 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 656GB free Firmware: Q0518CS Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 141 (A3) Unknown 100 100 17 (A4) Unknown 100 100 890 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (94) Unknown 100 100 90 (95) Unknown 100 100 4 (96) Unknown 100 100 0 (97) Unknown 100 100 1 (9F) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 46 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 7 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9689 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3615 (F5) Unknown 100 100 32040	73.9% Very good	Read 478 Write 250 Mixed 274 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 62.8 4K Mixed 21.4 96% 35.9 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 48.8 87% 175 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 113%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 271GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	298% Outstanding	Read 2,339 Write 1,744 Mixed 1,833 438% 1,972 MB/s	4K Read 33.1 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 72 225% 86.9 MB/s	DQ Read 703 DQ Write 502 DQ Mixed 291 302% 499 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 298% Great: 353%
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 218GB free Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 718 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 400 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 144 (A3) Unknown 100 100 55 (A4) Unknown 100 100 7339 (A5) Unknown 100 100 15 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 3 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 186 (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 100 100 15995 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 95881 (F2) Unknown 100 100 425138 (F5) Unknown 100 100 117424	96.9% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 380 Mixed 434 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 34.1 135% 54.7 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 68.7 110% 210 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 68 64 6259951 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1128 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 9431178 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -40462886893524 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 315 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 59 589430819 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 802 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4016 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 85899345955 (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 -53657026427427 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1678425316 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1374191051	101% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 179 Mixed 147 125% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 2.22 4K Mixed 0.29 105% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 105%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 218650448 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1189 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 242496 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2593 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 386 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 60 52 673579048 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3858 (C2) HDA temperature 40 48 85899345960 (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 105351252805556 (F1) Unknown 100 253 925995192 (F2) Unknown 100 253 714818621	102% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 167 Mixed 165 130% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.18 75% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown F4-3200C16-8GTZB 04CD F4-3200C16-8GTZR 04CD F4-3200C16-8GTZB 04CD F4-3200C16-8GTZR 32GB 49 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.9% Very good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 22.7 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 24.4 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 108%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 - $221

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,874x
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	752x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	357x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	294x

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	168x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	158x

RAM
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $127Bench 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	127x

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Total price: $1,062

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