Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 93.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.4% 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	63.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	27.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Jul 29 '17 at 18:24
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.8% Outstanding	Memory 92.3 1-Core 141 2-Core 279 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 513 8-Core 781 80% 647 Pts	64-Core 783 48% 783 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 120 Parallax 102 92% 112 fps	MRender 99.1 Gravity 103 Splatting 104 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 510 Series 250GB 777 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: PWG4 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 40403 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 289 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 207 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 52668 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 62 62 0	63.9% Good	Read 476 Write 307 Mixed 379 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 20.7 4K Write 45.1 4K Mixed 17.9 78% 27.9 MB/s	DQ Read 68.5 DQ Write 44 DQ Mixed 12.1 21% 41.6 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 63.9% Great: 65%
Seagate ST4000DM006-2G5107 4TB 7,216 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 3.5TB free Firmware: DN02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 75 207635897 (03) Spinup time 89 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 165 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2752373 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -26319559589408 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032837 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 59 656146466 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 35 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 412 (C2) HDA temperature 34 41 98784247842 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 7 7 207635897 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 6 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -72009421684716 (F1) Unknown 100 253 91642467 (F2) Unknown 100 253 115993430	121% Outstanding	Read 219 Write 201 Mixed 190 153% 203 MB/s	4K Read 1.28 4K Write 4.44 4K Mixed 0.36 176% 2.03 MB/s
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 126%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 3200 C16 Series 2x16GB 2,697 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.9% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.6 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 24.4 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 110%

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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-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	553x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	205x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	174x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	48x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $665

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16