Asus PRIME Z270-K

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.5% 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	188% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-K (all builds)
Memory	22.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	3.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 13 '17 at 01:12
Run Duration	777 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (53^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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 90.2 1-Core 140 2-Core 256 91% 162 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 716 74% 597 Pts	64-Core 734 45% 734 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.5% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 116 Parallax 96.9 84% 105 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 94 Splatting 99.3 79% 96.4 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 220GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	188% Outstanding	Read 1,952 Write 881 Mixed 1,296 303% 1,376 MB/s	4K Read 39.6 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 28.6 163% 64.6 MB/s	DQ Read 41.8 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 25.3 68% 135 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 188% Great: 283%
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 87GB free Firmware: DC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -82222853913311 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2136 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 37 (B7) Unknown 100 100 13 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 27 40 64427130907 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 37 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 285210 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 56 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 285210 (F2) Unknown 100 100 373115 (F9) Unknown 100 100 17593	67.9% Good	Read 480 Write 241 Mixed 284 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 20.4 4K Write 71 4K Mixed 14.7 87% 35.4 MB/s	DQ Read 154 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 45.8 75% 143 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 91%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 476GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 4391 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7463 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4852 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4350 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 64 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7398 (C2) HDA temperature 114 96 33 (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	70.7% Very good	Read 130 Write 116 Mixed 106 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.45 119% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 76%
LEXAR JUMPDRIVE SECURE 0GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 2% 0GB free, PID a400 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 1.09 Write 1.07 Mixed 1.08 1% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 1% Great: 4%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 1,092 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71.2% Very good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.4 72% 25.2 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 22.8 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 66.9 60% 66.9 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 117%

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

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-K - $74

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	932x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	451x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	315x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	293x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	259x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	116x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	136x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	61x

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Value: 68% - Good

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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