Asus PRIME Z270M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	101% 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	89.9% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161228
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '17 at 18:25
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (60^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% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 123 2-Core 253 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 487 67% 498 Pts	64-Core 501 31% 501 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6181) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	101% Outstanding	Lighting 130 Reflection 140 Parallax 120 106% 130 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 124 Splatting 102 90% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 552GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4063 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 132 (B1) Unknown 98 98 24 (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 70 55 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 64305710645	89.9% Excellent	Read 502 Write 401 Mixed 414 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 55.3 4K Mixed 28.7 106% 36.8 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 133 142% 237 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 133%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 204 202 8766 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1662 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2719 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 602 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8658 (C2) HDA temperature 130 115 22 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	93.2% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 150 Mixed 148 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.28 109% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 97%
WD Blue 6TB (2015)-$215 8,416 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 200 199 8958 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1357 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2787 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 581 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8851 (C2) HDA temperature 130 118 22 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	81.9% Excellent	Read 145 Write 141 Mixed 122 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.18 83% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 97%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M4A2800C16 CMK16GX4M4B3200C16 CMK16GX4M4B3200C16 CMK16GX4M4B3200C16 16GB 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	76.3% Very good	MC Read 27.2 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 24.8 78% 27.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 21.1 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270M-PLUS

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	229x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	87x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	83x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	54x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	49x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	47x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	28x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	16x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	34x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	19x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	14x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $505

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