Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	95.6% 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	111% 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 PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '17 at 08:38
Run Duration	194 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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 (91^st percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 90.5 1-Core 143 2-Core 274 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 484 8-Core 741 76% 613 Pts	64-Core 762 47% 762 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.3% 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 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.6% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 144 Parallax 122 104% 131 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 121 Splatting 71.4 79% 100 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.6% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 900P Optane NVMe PCIe 480GB-$900 1,995 User benchmarks, average bench 429% 447GB free Firmware: E2010325 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	408% Outstanding	Read 2,350 Write 1,945 Mixed 2,190 482% 2,162 MB/s	4K Read 219 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 134 586% 170 MB/s	DQ Read 561 DQ Write 320 DQ Mixed 210 218% 364 MB/s
Poor: 280% ↑ This bench: 408% Great: 541%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 130GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2502 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 517 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 61 50 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 42 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5675959685	111% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 405 Mixed 403 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 84.7 4K Mixed 45.3 169% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 256 DQ Mixed 113 138% 246 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 95GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7436 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1846 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 100 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7972850077	113% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 414 Mixed 421 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 83 4K Mixed 46.6 172% 58.3 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 253 DQ Mixed 116 140% 249 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 222752 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1683 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11953913 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2428 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 516 (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 71 58 488177693 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16890 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 60129542173 (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 -120551142063015 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3890427287 (F2) Unknown 100 253 74662749945	76.1% Very good	Read 143 Write 122 Mixed 144 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.48 4K Mixed 0.15 69% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 114%
Seagate BUP Slim RD 1TB 3,837 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 134GB free Firmware: 0143 Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	38.7% Below average	Read 55.3 Write 79.4 Mixed 57.6 48% 64.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.29 72% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x8GB 4,792 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.1% Very good	MC Read 24.9 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 22.4 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 22.2 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 106%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $686

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	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