Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 108% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 95% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 97.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	108% 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	115% 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	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 STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	26.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 01 '17 at 04:03
Run Duration	240 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	97.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 158 2-Core 306 103% 187 Pts	4-Core 528 8-Core 812 83% 670 Pts	64-Core 863 53% 863 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 147 Parallax 141 116% 144 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 136 Splatting 109 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 322GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 633 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 69 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 60 60 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2512093296	115% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 400 Mixed 412 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 51.8 190% 67.7 MB/s	DQ Read 226 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 111 123% 206 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 134%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 167 6558 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 466 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 677 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 101 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1759 (C2) HDA temperature 124 110 26 (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 9 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	53.7% Above average	Read 100 Write 86.3 Mixed 94.1 71% 93.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.19 89% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 100%
Seagate ST3250410AS 250GB-$95 20,246 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 136GB free Firmware: 3.AAA 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 118 83 186774465 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6334 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 753120080 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22212 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5446 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 32 32 68 (BE) vendor-specific 71 51 505217053 (C2) HDA temperature 29 49 55834574877 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 66 51 133329222 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 59 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	50.5% Above average	Read 91.6 Write 84.3 Mixed 82.5 65% 86.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.42 97% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 54%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 60GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 168 6316 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9583 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 15345 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6107 (C0) Power-off retract count 197 197 2271 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9583 (C2) HDA temperature 110 92 40 (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 13 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	29.3% Poor	Read 53.6 Write 48.1 Mixed 44.9 37% 48.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.28 4K Mixed 0.3 78% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 29.3% Great: 69%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 49GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 552 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 69 8907 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8880 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9596 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3148 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6158 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 56 188979347490 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 2 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 2 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 8981	48.7% Average	Read 91.9 Write 77.6 Mixed 86.4 64% 85.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.55 122% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 75%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB-$80 31,610 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 47GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 97 182433047 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10579 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 56 49 5854669607453 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 19174 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7242 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 44 521994270 (C2) HDA temperature 30 56 55834574878 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 73 51 220951804 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 118 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	42.8% Average	Read 72.8 Write 76.3 Mixed 63.2 53% 70.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.38 87% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$560 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3091 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 37.4 MC Write 39.1 MC Mixed 30.2 102% 35.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 41.4 SC Mixed 31.3 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 51.7 77% 51.7 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 105%

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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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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