Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 98.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	90.3% 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	93.2% 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	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170914
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Dec 14 '17 at 05:47
Run Duration	212 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$173 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	Memory 92.8 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 94% 171 Pts	4-Core 558 8-Core 811 86% 685 Pts	64-Core 815 50% 815 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 101%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Lighting 114 Reflection 122 Parallax 103 93% 113 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 106 Splatting 107 86% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 377GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9811 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 402 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 66 44 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11839361888	93.2% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 400 Mixed 415 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 97 4K Mixed 31.3 139% 53.3 MB/s	DQ Read 37.1 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 108 97% 139 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 131%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 152GB free Firmware: DXT08B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14857 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 949 (B1) Unknown 93 93 84 (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 69 53 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 83 83 17107 (EB) Unknown 99 99 319 (F1) Unknown 99 99 26964995126	76.9% Very good	Read 492 Write 248 Mixed 226 71% 322 MB/s	4K Read 22.9 4K Write 99.8 4K Mixed 13 104% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 347 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 28.9 88% 195 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2TB free Firmware: CC52 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 221647848 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2088 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34102107 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12583 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 643 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 21475179469 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 68 42 447231688736 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 194 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 40972 (C2) HDA temperature 32 58 -140737488355296 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 19279 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 5433133634704 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26981440293 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26722365316	82.9% Excellent	Read 151 Write 138 Mixed 146 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.19 71% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 96%
WD WD5000AAVS-00ZTB0 500GB 13,629 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 341GB free Firmware: 01.01B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 21 (03) Spinup time 162 148 4900 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10217 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 35338 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1157 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 298 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 153164 (C2) HDA temperature 113 97 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 200 199 1	26% Poor	Read 50.4 Write 39.8 Mixed 44.6 34% 45 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.34 84% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 26% Great: 44%
Seagate Slim BK 500GB 653 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 185GB free Firmware: 0934 Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	23.7% Poor	Read 40.4 Write 42 Mixed 37.8 30% 40.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.77 4K Mixed 0.15 52% 0.47 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 23.7% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.5% Very good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 21.3 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.8 SC Write 21.3 SC Mixed 22.2 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 95%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING - $477

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	4,770x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	1,046x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	479x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,356x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	810x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	399x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	346x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	295x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	282x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	405x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	330x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	264x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $1,246

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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