Asrock Z270 Gaming K4

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	77.4% 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	140% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z270 Gaming K4 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170508
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '18 at 01:25
Run Duration	277 Seconds
Run User	ESP-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$110 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	Memory 86.5 1-Core 105 2-Core 207 76% 133 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 393 52% 390 Pts	64-Core 415 26% 415 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3230) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	77.4% Very good	Lighting 99.3 Reflection 104 Parallax 94.8 81% 99.2 fps	MRender 87.3 Gravity 90.4 Splatting 82.7 71% 86.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 160GB free (System drive) Firmware: B355 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	140% Outstanding	Read 1,582 Write 386 Mixed 397 170% 788 MB/s	4K Read 41.9 4K Write 91.5 4K Mixed 18.3 135% 50.6 MB/s	DQ Read 445 DQ Write 225 DQ Mixed 36.7 107% 236 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 144%
SanDisk SSD 128GB-$84 8,513 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 87GB free Firmware: 2.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6675 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 943 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 259 (AE) Unknown 100 100 256 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 863 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1115 (F1) Unknown 100 100 17237751690 (F2) Unknown 100 100 21622037675	36.1% Below average	Read 442 Write 92.4 Mixed 244 56% 259 MB/s	4K Read 17.5 4K Write 11.4 4K Mixed 6.25 40% 11.7 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 11.1 DQ Mixed 6.49 9% 17.9 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 56%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 972GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 57361944 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 175 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 10677910 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 681 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 145 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 54 487522327 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 30 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2194 (C2) HDA temperature 23 46 55834574871 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 97186519974413 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5779084129 (F2) Unknown 100 253 30367239266	97.7% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 155 Mixed 156 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.24 86% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB 8,189 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 652GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 223409696 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2802 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 15103673 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10548 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1249 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 47245426717 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 75 45 554827801 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 305 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4401 (C2) HDA temperature 25 55 68719476761 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 26 7 223409696 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 438086674515 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1585985582 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3693518182	61.9% Good	Read 109 Write 107 Mixed 106 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.94 4K Mixed 0.14 49% 0.48 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 74%
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 320GB-$54 8,918 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 298GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 225285816 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2107 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 13334552441 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 -64205466088141 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1477 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 97 76 12885098583 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 41 39024787476 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 897 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 228 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 997966 (C2) HDA temperature 20 59 55834574868 (C4) Reallocation count 83 83 -127998615340349 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 193 69 (F0) Head flying hours 83 83 -127998615340349 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2924078366 (F2) Unknown 100 253 285044569 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	37.8% Below average	Read 65.2 Write 66.6 Mixed 24.5 38% 52.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 0.24 4K Mixed 0.16 41% 0.28 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 37.8% Great: 50%
Toshiba MK2552GSX 250GB-$47 2,386 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 52GB free Firmware: LV01 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1554 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9331 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 49 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 20759 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2755 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 146 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 99024 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 227634184216 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 49 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 68 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 9 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8359 (DE) Loaded hours 96 96 1634 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 329 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	20.5% Poor	Read 28.8 Write 42.2 Mixed 41.2 28% 37.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.07 4K Mixed 0.22 61% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 20.5% Great: 31%
WD Elements 1TB 51,914 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 114GB free, PID 10b8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	38.6% Below average	Read 86.8 Write 92.4 Mixed 52.3 97% 77.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.24 73% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905625-096.A00G 1x16GB 101 User benchmarks, average bench 39% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	40.6% Average	MC Read 14.6 MC Write 14.3 MC Mixed 11.7 39% 13.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 12.1 35% 12.3 GB/s	Latency 70.9 56% 70.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 40.6% Great: 43%

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Gaming 72%

Battleship

Desktop 93%

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Workstation 62%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asrock Z270 Gaming K4

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	247x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	73x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	56x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	50x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	24x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	15x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	11x

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Value: 109% - Outstanding

Total price: $511

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