Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	38.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	117% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jul 18 '17 at 00:48
Run Duration	216 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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 above expectations (98^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 143 2-Core 284 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 519 8-Core 789 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 804 50% 804 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2966) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.5% Below average	Lighting 50.9 Reflection 47.3 Parallax 42.4 42% 46.9 fps	MRender 38.9 Gravity 43.6 Splatting 38.1 33% 40.2 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.5% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 15 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 40 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 63 57 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 12 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1321078336	117% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 419 Mixed 422 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 48 4K Write 97.3 4K Mixed 48.3 186% 64.5 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 262 DQ Mixed 115 142% 252 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 124%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 852GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 178 172 4091 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8911 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 19302 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5731 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 357 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8553 (C2) HDA temperature 114 105 33 (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	78.3% Very good	Read 152 Write 120 Mixed 129 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 1.18 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.42 144% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 76%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 798GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8000 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2472 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6044 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1962 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 336 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2135 (C2) HDA temperature 115 109 37 (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 100 253 0	74.4% Very good	Read 147 Write 112 Mixed 106 91% 122 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.55 159% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 524GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 31275512 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 2017 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 29041238 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5608 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1921 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 62 521994271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8224 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 64424509471 (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 -18695992630218 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8313929915 (F2) Unknown 100 253 348190597271	77.2% Very good	Read 101 Write 167 Mixed 119 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.68 204% 2.24 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 112%
Lexar SD USB_3_0 Read 16GB 71 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 13GB free, PID b049 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	21.2% Poor	Read 89 Write 19.8 Mixed 27.2 45% 45.3 MB/s	4K Read 7.73 4K Write 0.69 4K Mixed 0.69 76% 3.04 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 21.2% Great: 34%

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 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.1% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 27.8 MC Mixed 20.9 73% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 24.3 67% 23.5 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 104%

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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 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,697x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,438x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	613x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	341x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	765x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	160x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $659

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