Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K7

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	262% 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.

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Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K7 (all builds)
Memory	27.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 03:53
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 93.1 1-Core 124 2-Core 269 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 496 65% 491 Pts	64-Core 500 31% 500 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 373F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 148 Parallax 141 114% 143 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 131 Splatting 106 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 635GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	262% Outstanding	Read 1,972 Write 1,474 Mixed 1,284 349% 1,577 MB/s	4K Read 57.2 4K Write 142 4K Mixed 58 236% 85.9 MB/s	DQ Read 544 DQ Write 402 DQ Mixed 152 201% 366 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 262% Great: 302%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 477GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	144% Outstanding	Read 1,555 Write 538 Mixed 687 202% 927 MB/s	4K Read 43.4 4K Write 94.8 4K Mixed 19.8 141% 52.7 MB/s	DQ Read 45.6 DQ Write 339 DQ Mixed 44.2 78% 143 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 144% Great: 155%
OCZ ARC 100 240GB-$120 11,799 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 62GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8823 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 323 (AB) Unknown 100 100 81558352 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 21 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 633 (F2) Unknown 100 100 869 (F9) Unknown 100 100 28961494	99.4% Outstanding	Read 448 Write 406 Mixed 439 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 29.7 144% 59.9 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 71 119% 228 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 101%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 25GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 35726 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 414 (B1) Unknown 74 74 947 (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 74 66 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 103 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48631904046	62.2% Good	Read 487 Write 179 Mixed 188 62% 285 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 46 4K Mixed 18.1 82% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 284 DQ Write 39.7 DQ Mixed 39.9 60% 121 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 493GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 63 55678219 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2104 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4117206 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2004 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 106 (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 75 72 420872217 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2216 (C2) HDA temperature 25 11 47244640281 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 55678219 (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 -55130200210556 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2343588521 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2160842182	97.6% Outstanding	Read 177 Write 163 Mixed 142 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.99 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.33 107% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 391GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 62549531 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 11005 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 60380664 (09) Power-on hours count 41 41 51720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 463 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 74 74 26 (BE) vendor-specific 71 49 488177693 (C2) HDA temperature 29 51 51539607581 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 28 23 62549531 (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 -121221156926823 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2753759645 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1419008877	45.8% Average	Read 80 Write 79.6 Mixed 79 60% 79.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.3 4K Mixed 0.46 97% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$92 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	88.5% Excellent	MC Read 31.4 MC Write 34.6 MC Mixed 28.5 90% 31.5 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 34.3 SC Mixed 26.4 76% 26.6 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 113%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming K7

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	222x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	37x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	32x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	57x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	43x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	37x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	22x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	13x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	12x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	16x
F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 82%, 14,957 samples	12x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $767

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