Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 86.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83% 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	65.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	May 21 '17 at 19:30
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86.5% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 128 2-Core 238 87% 153 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 709 70% 570 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 115 Parallax 97.8 84% 105 fps	MRender 97.4 Gravity 96.6 Splatting 102 81% 98.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8555392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 -19937238175363 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2644 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 105 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 75 34364653593 (C2) HDA temperature 25 75 34364653593 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8555392 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8555392 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8555392 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 93 93 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 35684 (EA) Unknown 0 0 20763 (F1) Unknown 0 0 20763 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5219	65.2% Good	Read 490 Write 196 Mixed 234 67% 307 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 13.8 105% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35.5 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 12.9 28% 54.7 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 826GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 66 148009354 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 219455 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 71 420675609 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 9 (C2) HDA temperature 25 17 73014444057 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 9 1 148009354 (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 55817394978829 (F1) Unknown 100 253 372773415 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22423454	104% Outstanding	Read 180 Write 182 Mixed 166 132% 176 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.3 104% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 113%
Seagate ST9320325AS 320GB-$34 18,767 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 90GB free Firmware: 0003BSM1 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 12016652 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6227 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 128198162 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 24969 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1259 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 9 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 47 420741145 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 352732 (C2) HDA temperature 25 53 47244640281 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 58 51 12016652 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	36.1% Below average	Read 62.4 Write 63.4 Mixed 58.3 46% 61.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.85 4K Mixed 0.19 52% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 39%
WD easystore 25FC 2TB 1,980 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 2TB free, PID 25fc Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	45.1% Average	Read 108 Write 107 Mixed 77.9 123% 97.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.94 4K Mixed 0.2 75% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 62%
NS-DCR30A2 128GB 15 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 90GB free, PID 0732 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	20.3% Poor	Read 10.1 Write 42.8 Mixed 43.1 48% 32 MB/s	4K Read 3.33 4K Write 2.84 4K Mixed 2.47 193% 2.88 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 20.3% Great: 30%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GX-D4-3000-MR 2x8GB 3,342 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 20 72% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 22.4 66% 22.9 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 101%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $686

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) $35	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