Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 106% UFO	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	64.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	180% 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.

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System	Gigabyte Z270X-Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161031
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 23 '17 at 17:50
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.95 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 97.4 1-Core 161 2-Core 322 106% 193 Pts	4-Core 605 8-Core 620 82% 613 Pts	64-Core 626 39% 626 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 Fury-$199 18,014 User benchmarks, average bench 58% Sapphire(174B E331) CLim: 1050 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.2.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.6% Good	Lighting 83.3 Reflection 58.7 Parallax 107 68% 83.1 fps	MRender 58.1 Gravity 78.7 Splatting 74.4 58% 70.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 62%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 240GB-$43 14,860 User benchmarks, average bench 151% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM02.1 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	180% Outstanding	Read 2,223 Write 288 Mixed 471 212% 994 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 132 4K Mixed 40.9 178% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 617 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 86.9 159% 325 MB/s
Poor: 106% ↑ This bench: 180% Great: 210%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 12GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3165 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 177 (64) Unknown 100 100 5388704 (65) Unknown 100 100 1109024 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 124 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 1634 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1292 (B7) Unknown 98 98 26 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 100 167504511006 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 2 (E7) Temperature 95 95 5 (E9) Unknown 100 100 9997 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6222 (F1) Unknown 100 100 8291 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5004 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 2	68.9% Good	Read 487 Write 255 Mixed 128 63% 290 MB/s	4K Read 31.7 4K Write 51.6 4K Mixed 11.4 90% 31.6 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 66.5 DQ Mixed 27.6 61% 134 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 921GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 169 167 2508 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 123 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 513 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 109 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 148 (C2) HDA temperature 112 103 31 (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 18 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	99.5% Outstanding	Read 164 Write 182 Mixed 157 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 1.35 4K Write 2.54 4K Mixed 0.34 142% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 99.5% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$161 35,811 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 30.6 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 39.9 SC Mixed 29.7 87% 30.4 GB/s	Latency 48.8 82% 48.8 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 110%

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Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

Battleship

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Ultra Gaming - $165

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	988x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	328x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	164x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	255x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	243x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	213x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	86x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	65x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	56x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	175x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	72x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	40x

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Total price: $938

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