Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 94% Nuclear submarine


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	133% 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	107% 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.

Very high background CPU (69%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '17 at 17:47
Run Duration	108 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	69%

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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 81.4 1-Core 121 2-Core 232 81% 145 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 638 70% 554 Pts	64-Core 734 45% 734 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2793 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	133% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 193 Parallax 196 148% 190 fps	MRender 139 Gravity 193 Splatting 135 126% 156 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ AMD Radeon R7 240GB-$110 2,356 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 154GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5715 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1714 (AB) Unknown 100 100 80198480 (AE) Unknown 100 100 150 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 120 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 96 96 96 (F1) Unknown 100 100 6629 (F2) Unknown 100 100 6305 (F9) Unknown 100 100 365597220	107% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 499 Mixed 500 112% 503 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 27.2 137% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 83.5 134% 258 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Adata Ultimate SU800 512GB-$82 31,280 User benchmarks, average bench 104% 61GB free Firmware: P0801A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^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 51 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 223 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 48 (A3) Unknown 100 100 30 (A4) Unknown 100 100 5361 (A5) Unknown 100 100 40 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (94) Unknown 100 100 4301 (95) Unknown 100 100 190 (96) Unknown 100 100 27 (97) Unknown 100 100 159 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 44 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 61580 (F2) Unknown 100 100 35439 (F5) Unknown 100 100 171552	93.4% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 340 Mixed 355 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 87.3 4K Mixed 30 134% 50 MB/s	DQ Read 308 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 61.9 101% 197 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 127%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	63.6% Good	MC Read 26.1 MC Write 24.5 MC Mixed 19.7 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 16.6 SC Mixed 13.5 42% 14.7 GB/s	Latency 78.1 51% 78.1 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 63.6% Great: 107%

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

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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	1,147x
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 $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	765x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 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 $273	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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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