Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (12th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 88 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	47.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	3 Days
Run Date	May 13 '17 at 05:09
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing way below expectations (12^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	Memory 83.7 1-Core 113 2-Core 215 78% 137 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 648 61% 508 Pts	64-Core 677 42% 677 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6390) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 152 Parallax 138 110% 142 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 150 Splatting 102 96% 119 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata S510 120GB 690 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.0.7a Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 102178376 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 -131640747601959 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3751 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 328 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 43 51542425640 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 102178376 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 102178376 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 102178376 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17131 (EA) Unknown 0 0 13077 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13077 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7950	47.2% Average	Read 488 Write 135 Mixed 192 59% 272 MB/s	4K Read 20.3 4K Write 31.8 4K Mixed 11.7 63% 21.3 MB/s	DQ Read 17.3 DQ Write 25.9 DQ Mixed 18.8 15% 20.7 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 79%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 60GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 142 141 3900 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10387 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 18993 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3260 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 282 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10104 (C2) HDA temperature 101 98 42 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	47.5% Average	Read 93.2 Write 72 Mixed 89.6 64% 84.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.38 100% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	59.9% Above average	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 22.9 MC Mixed 18.5 61% 21.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 18.1 SC Mixed 16 45% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 73.9 54% 73.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 105%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,361x
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	1,028x
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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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $966

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