Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

Performance Results

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


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (16th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 84 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 49.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Boot Drive	47.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

System	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming
Motherboard	Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming (all builds)
Memory	10.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171031
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 07 '18 at 16:46
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	VNM-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$131 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% U3E1, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 1.85 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	49.6% Average	Memory 74.6 1-Core 68.2 2-Core 122 54% 88.4 Pts	4-Core 135 8-Core 209 21% 172 Pts	64-Core 206 13% 206 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Gigabyte(1458 3724) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 391.35 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 44.1 108% 44.1 fps
Poor: 48% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
V-color VSS100 Series 127GB 58 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 102GB free Firmware: N1126L Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^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 100 100 498 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 365 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 78 (A3) Unknown 100 100 13 (A4) Unknown 100 100 35394 (A5) Unknown 100 100 95 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 34 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 99 (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 68 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 67 (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 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 66071 (F2) Unknown 100 100 47503 (F5) Unknown 100 100 141576	58.2% Above average	Read 510 Write 246 Mixed 331 80% 362 MB/s	4K Read 13.7 4K Write 28 4K Mixed 17.7 58% 19.8 MB/s	DQ Read 131 DQ Write 75.7 DQ Mixed 63.7 58% 90.3 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 58.2% Great: 90%
Plextor PX-128S3C 128GB 3,097 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 57GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^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 1030 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 231 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 34 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 66 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 13 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1447 (F1) Unknown 100 100 29792 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20143	76.1% Very good	Read 515 Write 448 Mixed 481 107% 481 MB/s	4K Read 14.9 4K Write 33.1 4K Mixed 23.9 71% 24 MB/s	DQ Read 138 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 62.3 64% 105 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 92%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 56GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 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 100 100 11800 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 965 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 178 (64) Unknown 100 100 594912 (65) Unknown 100 100 147792 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 31 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 350 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 726 (B7) Unknown 100 100 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 163209805853 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 11800 (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 11800 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1117 (EA) Unknown 100 100 851 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1023 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1119 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 11800	45.9% Average	Read 459 Write 193 Mixed 176 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 13.2 4K Write 20.1 4K Mixed 6.96 40% 13.4 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 64.4 DQ Mixed 19.7 35% 70.3 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 45.9% Great: 82%
JAJS500M120C-1 120GB 90 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: P0614D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 129 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 153 (A0) Unknown 100 100 2 (A1) Unknown 100 100 57 (A3) Unknown 100 100 22 (A4) Unknown 100 100 10498 (A5) Unknown 100 100 71 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 20 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 12 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 12 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 58 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 57 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 37963 (F2) Unknown 100 100 36294 (F5) Unknown 100 100 83984	47.2% Average	Read 464 Write 139 Mixed 213 59% 272 MB/s	4K Read 11 4K Write 29.7 4K Mixed 14.5 51% 18.4 MB/s	DQ Read 96.1 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 33.5 43% 77 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 2x8GB 74,390 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile)	50.5% Above average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 20.9 MC Mixed 19.3 52% 18.3 GB/s	SC Read 8.6 SC Write 16.4 SC Mixed 12 35% 12.3 GB/s	Latency 91.2 44% 91.2 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 103%

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Desktop 93%

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Workstation 85%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming - $170

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,425x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	671x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	271x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	365x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	314x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	227x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	105x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	99x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	93x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	131x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	93x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	92x

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Value: 111% - Outstanding

Total price: $640

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16