Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.6%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	94.3% 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	110% 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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	9.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	5.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 00:35
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-7600K-$240 10,632 User benchmarks - Average bench 95% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	SC Int 132 SC Float 142 SC Mixed 137 110% 137 Pts	QC Int 388 QC Float 420 QC Mixed 400 91% 402 Pts	MC Int 451 MC Float 486 MC Mixed 475 70% 471 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 112%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$368 112,820 User benchmarks - Average bench 100% Nvidia(10DE 119D) MaxC: 1911 MHz, MaxM: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	94.3% Outstanding	Lighting 295 Reflection 279 Parallax 302 90% 292 fps	MRender 200 Gravity 276 Splatting 214 104% 230 fps
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 111%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$99 109,243 User benchmarks - Average bench 95% 62GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 682 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 128 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 63 56 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7697963253	110% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 84.9 4K Mixed 44.3 166% 57.1 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 112 136% 241 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 116%
Hitachi HUA723020ALA641 2TB-$275 2,410 User benchmarks - Average bench 72% 1.5TB free Firmware: MK7OA840 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 169 169 38676201882 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 108 (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 100 100 682 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 143 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 176095035425 (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	71.7% Very good	Read 125 Write 125 Mixed 99.5 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.43 116% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$133 9,100 User benchmarks - Average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	65.7% Good	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 24.4 MC Mixed 21.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 23.9 SC Mixed 19.9 56% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 81%

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Gaming 97%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 71%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $309Bench 100%, 32,964 samples	1,141x
Core i5-7600KIntel $240Bench 95%, 10,632 samples	322x
Core i7-6700KIntel $319Bench 91%, 96,964 samples	53x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $368Bench 100%, 112,820 samples	488x
GTX 1080Nvidia $24Bench 127%, 50,555 samples	329x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $230Bench 70%, 56,975 samples	162x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $99Bench 95%, 109,243 samples	233x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $160Bench 97%, 70,771 samples	217x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $128Bench 226%, 8,414 samples	123x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $136Bench 88%, 11,733 samples	195x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $127Bench 83%, 18,125 samples	188x
CMU16GX4M2C3200C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 2,948 samples	76x

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Value: 91% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,072

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-7700K $309	Nvidia GTX 1070 $368	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $99
Intel Core i5-7600K $240	AMD RX 480 $227	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $129
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 $300	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $230	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $160

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $50	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $127	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $33
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $85	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $700	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $22
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB $46	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $136	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12