Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.2% 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	253% 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	0.4 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '18 at 05:55
Run Duration	163 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	40%

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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 i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.75 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 81.5 1-Core 148 2-Core 282 93% 171 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 694 73% 584 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (8^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	94.2% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 127 Parallax 118 98% 122 fps	MRender 98.9 Gravity 123 Splatting 98.3 87% 107 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 360GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	253% Outstanding	Read 2,220 Write 1,360 Mixed 1,302 359% 1,627 MB/s	4K Read 54.2 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 48.8 208% 74.4 MB/s	DQ Read 528 DQ Write 296 DQ Mixed 174 193% 333 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 253% Great: 254%
OCZ Vector 180 480GB-$140 1,103 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 141GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3967 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 720 (AB) Unknown 100 100 156944720 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (BE) vendor-specific 100 100 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 14 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1995 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3812 (F9) Unknown 100 100 69996836	112% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 493 Mixed 498 112% 502 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 34.9 153% 61.2 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 89.2 140% 266 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%
OCZ ARC 100 240GB-$120 11,799 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 99GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7044 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1772 (AB) Unknown 100 100 78871376 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 244 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 92 92 92 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11052 (F2) Unknown 100 100 18380 (F9) Unknown 100 100 757978858	98.3% Outstanding	Read 451 Write 408 Mixed 436 96% 432 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 27.1 139% 57.9 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 338 DQ Mixed 74 124% 238 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 101%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 138GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 169 2258 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3999 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7953 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1770 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3966 (C2) HDA temperature 115 107 28 (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	79% Very good	Read 142 Write 134 Mixed 121 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.29 92% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	62.5% Good	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 24.7 MC Mixed 20.7 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 17 SC Mixed 16.5 44% 15.6 GB/s	Latency 77.7 52% 77.7 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 103%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING - $247

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,568x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	574x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	312x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	444x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	419x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	399x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	132x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	90x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	231x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	141x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	101x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $772

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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