Gigabyte GA-X299 AORUS Ultra Gaming-CF

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 133% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 intensive workstation, and even full-fledged server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	113% 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	96.5% 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	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.

System	Gigabyte X299 AORUS Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-X299 AORUS Ultra Gaming-CF (all builds)
Memory	27.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180226
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Apr 09 '18 at 12:02
Run Duration	249 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i9-7960X-$347 2,322 User benchmarks, average bench 83% CPU0, 1 CPU, 16 cores, 32 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 84.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 89% 162 Pts	4-Core 537 8-Core 1,073 95% 805 Pts	64-Core 2,980 184% 2,980 Pts
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 99%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 0426) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2702 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 149 Reflection 154 Parallax 131 121% 145 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 151 Splatting 116 105% 130 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 127GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3452 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2090 (B1) Unknown 94 94 120 (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 72 47 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11567125010	96.5% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 406 Mixed 421 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 50.1 4K Mixed 38.8 120% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 107 135% 242 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 124%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 926GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 93 93 1441802 (02) Throughput performance 125 125 140 (03) Spinup time 121 121 38686294484 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 12509 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 56558 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 992 (C0) Power-off retract count 89 89 13741 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 13741 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 231929348127 (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	47.5% Average	Read 92.1 Write 73.1 Mixed 75.9 60% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.42 99% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 61%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 551GB free Firmware: ML6OA180 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 65536 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 96 (03) Spinup time 162 162 34379989358 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6573 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 146 146 29 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 55021 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 654 (C0) Power-off retract count 95 95 6813 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 6813 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 214749347868 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4	58.1% Above average	Read 146 Write 56.9 Mixed 92.8 74% 98.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.55 4K Mixed 0.2 52% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 58.1% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 551GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199189600 (03) Spinup time 92 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3791 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 59 12997029829 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34184 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 434 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 55835426829 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 44 99322888220 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 227 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4540 (C2) HDA temperature 28 56 12884901916 (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 78069620565308 (F1) Unknown 100 253 12365847526 (F2) Unknown 100 253 278993890532	52.9% Above average	Read 117 Write 67.8 Mixed 109 74% 97.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 0.84 4K Mixed 0.23 65% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 114%
Seagate ST31000333AS 1TB-$750 12,067 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 189GB free Firmware: CC3H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 54681506 (03) Spinup time 98 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12668 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 13 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 38424940 (09) Power-on hours count 34 34 58400 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 12 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 938 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 48 48 52 (BE) vendor-specific 68 41 86471868448 (C2) HDA temperature 32 59 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 24 54681506 (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 -84859963807076 (F1) Unknown 100 253 672181451 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3235577386	42.3% Average	Read 73.9 Write 73.3 Mixed 70.6 55% 72.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.38 88% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 66%
USB 3.0 Drobo S - Gen 2 17.5TB 107 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 12TB free, PID 000a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	52.7% Above average	Read 140 Write 97.7 Mixed 106 140% 115 MB/s	4K Read 1.97 4K Write 3.44 4K Mixed 0.03 125% 1.81 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 2x16GB 46,387 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 8 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.2% Very good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 35.2 MC Mixed 23.2 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 8.3 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 11 39% 13.8 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 164%

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Gaming 102%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 110%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X299 AORUS Ultra Gaming-CF

CPU
Core i9-7900XIntel $455Bench 82%, 19,432 samples	72x
Core i7-7820XIntel $375Bench 80%, 28,524 samples	68x
Core i7-7800XIntel $216Bench 78%, 22,334 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	56x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	36x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	31x

SSD
MZVLB512HAJQ-000H1 512GBSamsungBench 209%, 20,750 samples	38x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	14x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	10x

RAM
4x8GBUnknownBench 70%, 41,916 samples	93x
2x8GBUnknownBench 64%, 236,291 samples	41x
2x16GBUnknownBench 91%, 46,387 samples	28x

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Value: 66% - Good

Total price: $940

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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