Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 88.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	63.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '17 at 20:01
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Memory 80.7 1-Core 157 2-Core 308 97% 182 Pts	4-Core 515 8-Core 788 81% 652 Pts	64-Core 857 53% 857 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.8% Good	Lighting 80.9 Reflection 80.2 Parallax 69.4 66% 76.8 fps	MRender 72.1 Gravity 72.8 Splatting 73.9 60% 72.9 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1600 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 486 (A5) Unknown 100 100 5652328351886 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 16 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 8 (AE) Unknown 100 100 59 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 38 266287972381 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3135334056666 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1020 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10244 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2814 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3270 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0
Poor: 35% Great: 78%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$30 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 726GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896698547 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1346 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 105 105 38 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5290 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1214 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1505 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1505 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 210454577175 (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 200 200 0	83.1% Excellent	Read 164 Write 126 Mixed 146 110% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.62 4K Mixed 0.18 56% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 107%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 305GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 170 2483 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 492 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1837 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 469 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 916 (C2) HDA temperature 119 102 24 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	86.4% Excellent	Read 151 Write 150 Mixed 145 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.23 99% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 250GB-$23 32,491 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 232GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 1896 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1131 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 72568660 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5462 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 917 (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 77 60 386924567 (C2) HDA temperature 23 40 68719476759 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 34 1896 (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 26130581034364 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1392993944 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1803407878	67.6% Good	Read 116 Write 119 Mixed 112 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.73 132% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 67.6% Great: 74%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 446GB free Firmware: GM4OA52A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 114 114 25791824210 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3184 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 23811 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2934 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4371 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4371 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 257699151895 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 6 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50% Above average	Read 84.1 Write 90.1 Mixed 89.9 66% 88.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.41 100% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSE.16FBD2 4x8GB 170 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2546 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.9% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 25 78% 27.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 31.3 SC Mixed 24.2 69% 24.3 GB/s	Latency 79.2 50% 79.2 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 85%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,350x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $993

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 $184	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) $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