Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Yacht


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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	241% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170707
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '17 at 14:31
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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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-$250 712,312 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 (86^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 143 2-Core 252 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 797 78% 640 Pts	64-Core 787 49% 787 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6161) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.3% Good	Lighting 78.7 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 67.8 64% 74.6 fps	MRender 71.9 Gravity 71 Splatting 72.4 59% 71.8 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.3% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 930GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1115 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 140 (A3) Unknown 100 100 59 (A4) Unknown 100 100 290 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 3618 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4799 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5118 (F5) Unknown 100 100 4640	105% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 435 Mixed 461 105% 472 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 36.9 150% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 271 DQ Mixed 70 106% 199 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 108%
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 881GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1115 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 145 (A3) Unknown 100 100 54 (A4) Unknown 100 100 363 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 111 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1654 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 5981 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16565 (F5) Unknown 100 100 5808	103% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 431 Mixed 464 105% 471 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 38.4 145% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 71.9 104% 191 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%
Crucial BX100 1TB-$500 1,367 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 754GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 85 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1183 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 133 (A3) Unknown 100 100 66 (A4) Unknown 100 100 560 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 116 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4334 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9532 (F2) Unknown 100 100 30759 (F5) Unknown 100 100 8960	92.5% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 425 Mixed 463 104% 467 MB/s	4K Read 25 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 28.6 133% 54.8 MB/s	DQ Read 25.1 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 66.2 73% 115 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 108%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 432GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	241% Outstanding	Read 1,903 Write 1,696 Mixed 1,647 390% 1,749 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 173 4K Mixed 31.2 193% 81.7 MB/s	DQ Read 43.4 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 33.4 52% 93.9 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 241% Great: 353%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 2400 C17 2x8GB 5,767 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 25.4 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 33.1 SC Mixed 24.6 72% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 88%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	118x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $749

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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