Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 70% Battle cruiser	Desktop 107% UFO	Workstation 57% Gunboat


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 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	61% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	196% 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	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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 17:25
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	10%

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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 i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 157 2-Core 319 104% 191 Pts	4-Core 640 8-Core 645 86% 643 Pts	64-Core 644 40% 644 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% MSI(1462 8C95) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2352 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61% Good	Lighting 74.4 Reflection 74.9 Parallax 65.5 61% 71.6 fps	MRender 82.1 Gravity 70.3 Splatting 74.1 62% 75.5 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 314GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3930 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 561 (B1) Unknown 99 99 15 (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 70 58 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 65 65 34775 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17479139350	104% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 418 100% 449 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 27.8 156% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 26.9 90% 198 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 233GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8344 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1213 (B1) Unknown 98 98 30 (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 67 49 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 65 65 34901 (EB) Unknown 99 99 109 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12724339329	94.6% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 412 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 46.1 4K Write 95.3 4K Mixed 27.2 155% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 46.2 DQ Write 99 DQ Mixed 26.7 33% 57.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 140GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	196% Outstanding	Read 1,839 Write 1,134 Mixed 1,146 303% 1,373 MB/s	4K Read 53.6 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 24.3 169% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 55.8 DQ Write 135 DQ Mixed 28.7 41% 73.1 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 196% Great: 236%
WD Red 1TB (2012)-$62 37,583 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 161GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 130 4025 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2589 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 11883 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1375 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 184 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 19943 (C2) HDA temperature 113 106 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	50.8% Above average	Read 92.2 Write 84.7 Mixed 91 67% 89.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.18 4K Mixed 0.23 86% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 77GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 92 175835168 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3461 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 24 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 133231192 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 22801 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2225 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 330 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 555614240 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 432 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 233466 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 38654705696 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 1 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 1 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -49185965459240 (F1) Unknown 100 253 53927353623650 (F2) Unknown 100 253 121820715112479	83.2% Excellent	Read 126 Write 164 Mixed 137 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.26 78% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 83.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB-$42 66,222 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.6% Outstanding	MC Read 34.9 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 28.9 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 36.3 SC Mixed 30.8 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 51 78% 51 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 88%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $439

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,892x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	764x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	362x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	905x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	782x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	777x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	267x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	265x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 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: $1,232

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