Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (83rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 17 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 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.7% 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	108% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	10.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 03 '17 at 18:39
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (83^rd 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 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 91.4 1-Core 149 2-Core 285 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 550 8-Core 836 86% 693 Pts	64-Core 837 52% 837 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.7% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 114 Parallax 101 87% 107 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 99.8 Splatting 91.2 77% 94.7 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 374GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1989 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 576 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 69 58 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 85 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13434909434	108% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 407 Mixed 411 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 45.5 4K Write 99.1 4K Mixed 34.4 166% 59.7 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 110 136% 242 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 133%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2014)-$220 1,278 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 5.5TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 7011035 (03) Spinup time 86 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 308 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8606051068 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 315 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 125 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065700 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 42 245368094753 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1780 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 858 (C2) HDA temperature 33 58 77309411361 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 42 7011035 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 15 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -25907242729345 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23374248325 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24285952894	115% Outstanding	Read 207 Write 194 Mixed 182 146% 194 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 0.4 140% 1.38 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 118%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2014)-$220 1,278 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 5.5TB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51876023 (03) Spinup time 87 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 553 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 25015958 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1186 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 204 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 88 21475164186 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 658 (BE) vendor-specific 66 40 975529246754 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 3766 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1332 (C2) HDA temperature 34 60 77309411362 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 50 42 51876023 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 72108205932803 (F1) Unknown 100 253 35222761125 (F2) Unknown 100 253 42708383418	117% Outstanding	Read 208 Write 200 Mixed 174 145% 194 MB/s	4K Read 1.13 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.36 131% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 118%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2014)-$220 1,278 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 5.5TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 143848 (03) Spinup time 87 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 323 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 4317866636 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1739 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 171 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 65 40 56423088163 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 3430 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2534 (C2) HDA temperature 35 60 77309411363 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 42 143848 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 16 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -94446330837676 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42345883579 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29862484853	115% Outstanding	Read 209 Write 192 Mixed 200 151% 200 MB/s	4K Read 1.14 4K Write 2.19 4K Mixed 0.4 133% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 118%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000.C 1TB-$40 97,793 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 766GB free Firmware: JP4OA3MA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 98 (03) Spinup time 120 120 25790447931 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1706 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 22 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 31 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 44964 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1041 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5534 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5534 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 210454577183 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 22 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	67.8% Good	Read 116 Write 121 Mixed 113 88% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.33 88% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 74%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 2400 C15 Series 2133 C14 Series 2400 C15 Series 2133 C14 Series 32GB 2197, 2197, 2197, 2197 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	74% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28 MC Mixed 22.8 73% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 29.2 SC Mixed 24.5 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 - $129

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	913x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	323x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	267x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	201x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	91x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	56x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	35x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $656

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