Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.8% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	236% 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 (all builds)
Memory	28.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170823
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Oct 29 '17 at 14:09
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% U3E1, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 149 2-Core 286 98% 177 Pts	4-Core 478 8-Core 747 76% 612 Pts	64-Core 819 51% 819 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2102 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 128 Parallax 117 90% 118 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 103 Splatting 111 87% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 954GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3658 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 923 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 65 55 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2319058476	122% Outstanding	Read 528 Write 505 Mixed 511 115% 515 MB/s	4K Read 43.8 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 40.6 186% 70.8 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 285 DQ Mixed 32.5 105% 229 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 442GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	236% Outstanding	Read 2,075 Write 1,482 Mixed 1,210 351% 1,589 MB/s	4K Read 55.1 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 31.6 189% 69.8 MB/s	DQ Read 58.4 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 124 107% 150 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 236% Great: 302%
Hitachi HMS5C4040BLE640 4TB 902 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 3TB free Firmware: MPAOA5D0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 96 (03) Spinup time 138 138 42980409885 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 606 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 42 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 581 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 134 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1082 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1082 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 197569806369 (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	61.6% Good	Read 137 Write 77.1 Mixed 129 87% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.19 93% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 37% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 73%
Asmt ASM1352-PM 2TB 50 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Read 162 Write 133 Mixed 117 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.45 130% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 4000 C19 4x8GB 102 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 4000 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.3% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 19.7 61% 21.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 22.2 SC Mixed 20.4 56% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 51.4 78% 51.4 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.3% Great: 123%

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Gaming 106%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 - $240

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	598x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	67x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	152x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	138x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	96x

SSD
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	45x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	42x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	51x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	40x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	29x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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