Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 67% Battle cruiser	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 99%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	63% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	92% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	59.5 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 01 '17 at 22:41
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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-$241 712,312 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 (100^th percentile)	99% Outstanding	Memory 93.4 1-Core 153 2-Core 297 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 563 8-Core 809 86% 686 Pts	64-Core 834 52% 834 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	63% Good	Lighting 80.3 Reflection 82.9 Parallax 74.3 65% 79.2 fps	MRender 78.8 Gravity 72.7 Splatting 64.7 58% 72.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 70GB 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 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6301 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2095 (B1) Unknown 97 97 35 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 65 46 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 31 (EB) Unknown 99 99 348 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19555745153	92% Outstanding	Read 474 Write 324 Mixed 351 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 81.7 4K Mixed 27 135% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 232 DQ Mixed 86 121% 227 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 52239240 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 126 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 32841 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 351 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 105 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 58 706478114 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 274 (C2) HDA temperature 34 42 60129542178 (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 32341103739209 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25180650 (F2) Unknown 100 253 35449943	99.1% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 165 Mixed 170 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.21 87% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3500413AS 3TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 121586512 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 125 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 407623 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 104 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 58 706543649 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 281 (C2) HDA temperature 33 42 64424509473 (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 -101034810670770 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3041660950 (F2) Unknown 100 253 471129534	92.7% Outstanding	Read 166 Write 158 Mixed 155 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.18 77% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 94%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 465GB free Firmware: JC45 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 118 99 200022953 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4611 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 251273104 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12531 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4585 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 22 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 53 605683743 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 42949672991 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 22 200022953 (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 -2778843815378 (F1) Unknown 100 253 362542744 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1026516267	66.5% Good	Read 122 Write 110 Mixed 114 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.65 133% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 11GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 77409728 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2090 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 49 48 2546961963794 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6347 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2084 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 53 639434785 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 74 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 70766 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 51539607585 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -84580790956752 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17136865733 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29364450033	54.2% Above average	Read 103 Write 86.3 Mixed 95.3 71% 94.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.2 4K Mixed 0.28 89% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x16GB 3,127 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	89% Excellent	MC Read 31.7 MC Write 33.7 MC Mixed 28.5 89% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 36.5 SC Mixed 28.5 81% 28.4 GB/s	Latency 61.2 65% 61.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 130%

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Gaming 71%

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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 $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,695x
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	1,146x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	341x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

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	159x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $684

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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