Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 91.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	78.9% 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	125% 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 TUF Z270 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '17 at 04:03
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$242 712,312 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 (94^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 142 2-Core 268 95% 169 Pts	4-Core 467 8-Core 775 76% 621 Pts	64-Core 781 48% 781 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.9% Very good	Lighting 101 Reflection 108 Parallax 96 82% 102 fps	MRender 89.4 Gravity 93.1 Splatting 82.9 72% 88.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 406GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 4 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6508 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 730 (B1) Unknown 99 99 34 (B3) Unknown 99 99 4 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 4 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 285 (BE) vendor-specific 61 55 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 285 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 49 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19109630698	125% Outstanding	Read 527 Write 502 Mixed 510 115% 513 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 49.7 186% 70.1 MB/s	DQ Read 358 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 164 174% 288 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 125% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 978GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 17434840 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 327 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 60 12891180675 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1748 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 187 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 67 63 572456993 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3235 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 73014444065 (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 -13662290967252 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10781990395 (F2) Unknown 100 253 54605463296	95.1% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 150 Mixed 157 123% 163 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.14 58% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 931GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 111839648 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1218 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 98319445 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6667 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1093 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538771488 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 38 38 124210 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 68719476768 (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 124493922047273 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21017725547 (F2) Unknown 100 253 719583099416	110% Outstanding	Read 204 Write 181 Mixed 163 137% 183 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.24 94% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 439GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 128059120 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2576 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 257005712 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1544 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032839 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 56 555679777 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 142 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 81 81 38143 (C2) HDA temperature 33 44 60129542177 (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 -99432787861439 (F1) Unknown 100 253 43140406840 (F2) Unknown 100 253 60419129599	82.6% Excellent	Read 150 Write 138 Mixed 124 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.24 71% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 37.6 MC Mixed 28.3 97% 33.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 33.6 SC Mixed 29.4 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 51.3 78% 51.3 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 110%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 - $129

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	911x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	323x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	267x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	201x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	91x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	56x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	35x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $656

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