Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.7% 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	92.1% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	7.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	27.7 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '17 at 16:45
Run Duration	225 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (54^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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 146 2-Core 280 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 468 8-Core 782 76% 625 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 116 Parallax 97.7 93% 109 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 99.8 Splatting 99.9 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 406GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 703 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 341 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3276836 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 544 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 64 274879348767 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 42949672970 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 579 (EA) Unknown 100 100 748 (F1) Unknown 253 253 694 (F2) Unknown 253 253 15376 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	70.6% Very good	Read 479 Write 222 Mixed 268 71% 323 MB/s	4K Read 26.1 4K Write 41.1 4K Mixed 19.3 86% 28.9 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 42.1 94% 197 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 107%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 58GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7717 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4228 (B1) Unknown 94 94 63 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 45 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 8 (EB) Unknown 99 99 606 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41920460465	92.1% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 351 Mixed 352 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 43.5 4K Write 75 4K Mixed 21.8 134% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 277 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 35.9 88% 184 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 118%
Covecube Virtual Disk 2TB 1,262 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 4TB free Firmware: 0001 Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	Read 154 Write 120 Mixed 135 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.18 64% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 105%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 175005600 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 807 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8099842 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2228 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 785 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 521469983 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32100 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 73014444063 (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 -124146029688661 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7627597457 (F2) Unknown 100 253 72328540675	80.8% Excellent	Read 146 Write 136 Mixed 135 105% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.21 71% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 96%
Toshiba DT01ABA300 3TB 5,677 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1TB free Firmware: MZ6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 144 144 83 (03) Spinup time 137 137 34386018704 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4039 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7777 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4027 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4039 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4039 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 214749413409 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	47% Average	Read 80.1 Write 83.9 Mixed 91.7 64% 85.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.74 4K Mixed 0.11 32% 0.33 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 88%
Toshiba DT01ABA300 3TB 5,677 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1TB free Firmware: MZ6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 145 145 79 (03) Spinup time 137 137 34385887632 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4056 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 7054 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 4026 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4056 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4056 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 206159544353 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	64.7% Good	Read 119 Write 107 Mixed 95.2 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 0.89 4K Mixed 0.12 41% 0.43 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown 8GX-D4-3200-MR 2x8GB 3,635 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 26.1 90% 31.5 GB/s	SC Read 21.1 SC Write 34.1 SC Mixed 29.2 80% 28.1 GB/s	Latency 52.3 76% 52.3 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 109%

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Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,351x
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	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $993

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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