Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 46% Yacht	Desktop 59% Gunboat	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (20th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 80 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 below average single core score, this CPU can handle email, web browsing and audio/video playback but it will struggle to handle modern 3D games or workstation tasks such as video editing. Finally, with a gaming score of 48.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is below average.
Graphics	85.6% 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	207% 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 STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170405
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 01 '17 at 16:22
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	BHR-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing below expectations (20^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 1.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	48.2% Average	Memory 68.3 1-Core 27.7 2-Core 68.5 37% 54.8 Pts	4-Core 154 8-Core 284 26% 219 Pts	64-Core 595 37% 595 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.89 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	85.6% Excellent	Lighting 95.8 Reflection 73.8 Parallax 132 78% 101 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 142 Splatting 111 100% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 646GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	207% Outstanding	Read 2,520 Write 1,028 Mixed 1,465 367% 1,671 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 51.5 4K Mixed 33.9 128% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 105 DQ Write 72.4 DQ Mixed 40.6 43% 72.6 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 207% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 464GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1729 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 526 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 71 60 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10408256899	79.1% Very good	Read 498 Write 348 Mixed 419 94% 422 MB/s	4K Read 30.9 4K Write 42.5 4K Mixed 29.1 107% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 149 DQ Write 84.2 DQ Mixed 49.8 55% 94.2 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 79.1% Great: 134%
SABRENT 1TB 2,168 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 784GB free Firmware: 0109 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	56.5% Above average	Read 107 Write 89.2 Mixed 85.9 71% 94.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.45 111% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 56.5% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile)	62.5% Good	MC Read 19.6 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 28.7 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 7.8 SC Write 10.6 SC Mixed 8.4 26% 8.93 GB/s	Latency 106 38% 106 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 107%

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Gaming 107%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	119x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $726

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