Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	85.8% 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	274% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '17 at 06:05
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (87^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% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	94% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 144 2-Core 284 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 757 77% 625 Pts	64-Core 810 50% 810 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.71% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 12 Parallax 7.84 7% 9.32 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 6.9 Splatting 16.6 10% 11.5 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.71% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 119 Parallax 104 91% 112 fps	MRender 96.8 Gravity 102 Splatting 84 76% 94.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 347GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	274% Outstanding	Read 2,513 Write 1,387 Mixed 1,392 388% 1,764 MB/s	4K Read 58 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 54.2 223% 79 MB/s	DQ Read 569 DQ Write 370 DQ Mixed 202 223% 380 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 274% Great: 254%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 119GB free Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 5 0 5 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 27954 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 710 (E8) Unknown 100 100 34335265044 (E9) Unknown 96 0 96	101% Outstanding	Read 458 Write 360 Mixed 383 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 34.8 154% 62.3 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 308 DQ Mixed 122 147% 258 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 100GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20710 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 596 (B1) Unknown 93 93 237 (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 78 60 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 484 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15801256361	99.7% Outstanding	Read 523 Write 361 Mixed 421 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 24.5 142% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 316 DQ Mixed 69.2 126% 249 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 110%
Mushkin MKNSSDCR480GB-7-A 480GB 228 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 63GB free Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4730204 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8521215115984 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 19 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 13 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 23 42 51542360087 (C2) HDA temperature 23 42 51542360087 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4730204 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4730204 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4730204 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 30064771073 (E9) Unknown 0 0 232 (EA) Unknown 0 0 177 (F1) Unknown 0 0 177 (F2) Unknown 0 0 924	56.4% Above average	Read 500 Write 196 Mixed 261 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 20.1 4K Mixed 15.9 68% 20 MB/s	DQ Read 109 DQ Write 74.2 DQ Mixed 40.7 44% 74.8 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	90.8% Outstanding	MC Read 33.5 MC Write 35.1 MC Mixed 26.4 90% 31.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 36.3 SC Mixed 28.4 82% 28.7 GB/s	Latency 52.1 77% 52.1 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 90.8% Great: 104%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 - $129

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	911x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	323x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	267x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	201x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	91x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	56x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	35x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $656

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