Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	94.4% 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	233% 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 (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	28.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 15 '17 at 19:20
Run Duration	283 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing as expected (50^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 152 2-Core 305 101% 184 Pts	4-Core 562 8-Core 813 86% 687 Pts	64-Core 774 48% 774 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.4% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 124 Parallax 122 102% 123 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 109 Splatting 87.8 80% 99.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 553GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	233% Outstanding	Read 2,447 Write 1,340 Mixed 1,423 382% 1,737 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 35.1 161% 63.3 MB/s	DQ Read 55.2 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 28.8 49% 91 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 233% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 2GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8841 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1014 (B1) Unknown 97 97 137 (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 79 56 21 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 86 86 14013 (EB) Unknown 99 99 59 (F1) Unknown 99 99 23206830375	94.6% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 353 Mixed 445 97% 435 MB/s	4K Read 29.7 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 23.3 129% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 352 DQ Write 315 DQ Mixed 24.2 103% 230 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 124%
Seagate Expansion 4TB 22,017 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 833GB free Firmware: 9300 Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	51.2% Above average	Read 73.7 Write 103 Mixed 57.2 58% 78.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 5.73 4K Mixed 0.59 208% 2.39 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 51.2% Great: 66%
WD WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB 1TB 17,076 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 693GB free Firmware: 03.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 188 184 1558 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13008 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2485 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1402 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 89 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 36423 (C2) HDA temperature 126 92 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 98 98 1775	49.1% Average	Read 93.4 Write 77.2 Mixed 60.7 58% 77.1 MB/s	4K Read 1.22 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.21 105% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 90GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 28818896 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1838 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 46282799 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 14927 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1617 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 81 56 319750163 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 25 25 151710 (C2) HDA temperature 19 44 34359738387 (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 -82570746257021 (F1) Unknown 100 253 39113741615 (F2) Unknown 100 253 86304794896	57.9% Above average	Read 111 Write 90.6 Mixed 87.6 72% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.21 72% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 112%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 27GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120508040 (03) Spinup time 94 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1202 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34528263 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8904 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 979 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196616 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 53 353435669 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8039 (C2) HDA temperature 21 47 38654705685 (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 -126168959277148 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23115218878 (F2) Unknown 100 253 156149819944	58.3% Above average	Read 94 Write 108 Mixed 87.7 72% 96.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.61 200% 2.25 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 20GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 71 71 9460 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6783 (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 94 94 31177 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3910 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 251 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 88 53 202113036 (C2) HDA temperature 85 50 252444687 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 260148 (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 100 100 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	37.3% Below average	Read 98.6 Write 31.3 Mixed 71.6 51% 67.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.25 4K Write 0.96 4K Mixed 0.24 55% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 37.3% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Avexir DDR4-3200 CL16 8GB 4x8GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	97.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 37.1 MC Mixed 30.8 99% 34.5 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 39.6 SC Mixed 30 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 55.3 72% 55.3 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 106%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,362x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,029x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	940x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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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