Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 92.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90% 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	328% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

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

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING (all builds)
Memory	27.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 03:33
Run Duration	171 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	Memory 90.2 1-Core 145 2-Core 290 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 550 8-Core 548 74% 549 Pts	64-Core 558 35% 558 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 118 Parallax 117 93% 117 fps	MRender 99.6 Gravity 105 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
St5000dm 000-1FK178 5TB 190 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 4TB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 144908392 (03) Spinup time 93 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 933 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 8643081132 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6904 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 177 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 55 655949863 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 287 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29625 (C2) HDA temperature 39 45 60129542183 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 100 144908392 (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 -21925808044084 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5711447059 (F2) Unknown 100 253 59205853623	15.4% Very poor	Read 127 Write 130 Mixed 83.4 25% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 11.1 4K Mixed 0.37 8% 4.14 MB/s	DQ Read 2.18 DQ Write 7.62 DQ Mixed 0.7 2% 3.5 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 15.4% Great: 19%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 304GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	328% Outstanding	Read 2,452 Write 1,830 Mixed 1,893 457% 2,059 MB/s	4K Read 47.3 4K Write 221 4K Mixed 64.1 271% 111 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 1,292 DQ Mixed 327 392% 651 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 328% Great: 353%
Samsung SSD 250GB 2,741 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 135GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7811 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 207 (B1) Unknown 98 98 31 (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 66 52 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 104 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14996538391	132% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 489 Mixed 504 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 135 4K Mixed 59.5 217% 80.1 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 127 151% 262 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 126%
Toshiba MD04ACA500 5TB-$154 3,810 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2.5TB free Firmware: FP2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 8685 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1631 (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 81 81 7688 (0A) Spinup retry count 132 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 189 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 97 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 97 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2435 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929217060 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 96 96 1956 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 213 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	93.9% Outstanding	Read 158 Write 169 Mixed 166 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 1.71 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.31 146% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2C3200C16 2x16GB 4,608 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	MC Read 26 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 25.5 77% 26.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 30.1 SC Mixed 23.9 68% 24 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING - $247

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,567x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	574x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	312x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	444x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	419x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	399x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	132x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	90x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	231x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	141x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	101x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $772

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 $178	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) $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