Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 95.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.3% 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	235% 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING (all builds)
Memory	28.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171212
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 19 '18 at 23:57
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	35%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	Memory 89.7 1-Core 142 2-Core 279 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 539 8-Core 916 88% 728 Pts	64-Core 1,138 70% 1,138 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1755 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 114 Parallax 113 92% 113 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 102 Splatting 89 78% 95.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 4TB-$470 765 User benchmarks, average bench 113% 2TB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 99 99 4618 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 689 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 59 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 159 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24275964154	98.1% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 412 Mixed 425 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 70.9 4K Mixed 30.6 136% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 126 128% 211 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 133%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 413GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	235% Outstanding	Read 2,013 Write 1,685 Mixed 1,639 396% 1,779 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 92.1 4K Mixed 34.5 158% 56.5 MB/s	DQ Read 49.5 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 33.9 42% 72.4 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 235% Great: 353%
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 195GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33475 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2829 (B1) Unknown 89 89 387 (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 73 43 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 2 (EB) Unknown 99 99 401 (F1) Unknown 99 99 221476868235	98.4% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 435 Mixed 505 109% 486 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 79.7 4K Mixed 29.4 129% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 287 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 101 125% 220 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 118%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 516GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 131 9850 (04) Start/Stop count 82 82 18889 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 21949 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 786 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 207 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18681 (C2) HDA temperature 114 83 38 (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	88.1% Excellent	Read 151 Write 156 Mixed 146 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 3.13 4K Mixed 0.24 124% 1.44 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 100%
USB 3.0 Drobo S - Gen 2 17.5TB 107 User benchmarks, average bench 35% 13TB free, PID 000a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	27.2% Poor	Read 66.2 Write 55.9 Mixed 50.8 72% 57.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.07 63% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 27.2% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 8,912 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.4% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 30.6 SC Mixed 23.2 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 125%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 85%

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Motherboard: Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - $135

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,513x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	833x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	573x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	401x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	346x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	339x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	116x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	105x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	97x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	145x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	90x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	84x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $844

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