Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	126% 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	218% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 06 '17 at 20:39
Run Duration	193 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 93.8 1-Core 136 2-Core 273 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 527 8-Core 529 71% 528 Pts	64-Core 527 33% 527 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E2) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 175 Reflection 198 Parallax 170 143% 181 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 166 Splatting 125 113% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 750GB-$160 24,471 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 497GB free Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^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 1157 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 511 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 167 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 38 266288955430 (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 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1871763678 (F7) Unknown 100 100 58601428 (F8) Unknown 100 100 31743583 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3589 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85% Excellent	Read 470 Write 329 Mixed 337 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 25.4 111% 44 MB/s	DQ Read 344 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 48 100% 206 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 104%
SanDisk Extreme Pro 240GB-$79 10,862 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 223GB free Firmware: X21200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 2597 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 963 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 82 (A9) Unknown 100 100 499 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 33 (AE) Unknown 100 100 149 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 54 231929348129 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 266 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8934 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5968 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9656 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	107% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 484 Mixed 483 109% 487 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 28.9 141% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 364 DQ Write 326 DQ Mixed 65.4 126% 252 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 114%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 179GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	218% Outstanding	Read 1,834 Write 1,104 Mixed 1,152 301% 1,363 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 131 4K Mixed 46.6 194% 73.4 MB/s	DQ Read 555 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 177 198% 344 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 218% Great: 236%
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$39 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 169GB free Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1427 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 530 (A5) Unknown 100 100 6553675 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 16 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 330 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 110 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 66 283468955680 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 90196148252 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1307 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1560 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1489 (F2) Unknown 253 253 484 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.1% Excellent	Read 486 Write 331 Mixed 264 80% 360 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 84.3 4K Mixed 21 115% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 362 DQ Write 205 DQ Mixed 45.4 98% 204 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 108%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 171 7866 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2343 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3547 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1225 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 129 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 42120 (C2) HDA temperature 118 104 34 (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 1	63% Good	Read 109 Write 110 Mixed 105 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.27 104% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 63% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x4GB-$30 11,890 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	77% Very good	MC Read 28.1 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 23.1 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 29.3 SC Mixed 23.8 67% 23.4 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $439

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,895x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	764x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	363x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	905x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	783x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	778x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	267x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	266x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	196x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	355x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	288x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	138x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,224

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