Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (42nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 58 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	8% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	171% 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	9.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 12 '18 at 06:04
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing as expected (42^nd 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 133 2-Core 234 88% 154 Pts	4-Core 372 8-Core 688 64% 530 Pts	64-Core 704 44% 704 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4849 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8% Terrible	Lighting 8.27 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 8.53 7% 9.42 fps	MRender 12.4 Gravity 7.5 Splatting 16.8 10% 12.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 350GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	171% Outstanding	Read 1,937 Write 1,371 Mixed 1,232 335% 1,513 MB/s	4K Read 13 4K Write 11 4K Mixed 6.18 34% 10.1 MB/s	DQ Read 16.4 DQ Write 9.07 DQ Mixed 7.77 7% 11.1 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 171% Great: 254%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2015)-$107 691 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2TB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 167333814 (03) Spinup time 86 83 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12785 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 143716995 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10369 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1065 (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 51 45 825294897 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 8209 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32080 (C2) HDA temperature 49 55 73014444081 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 1 167333814 (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 73684458934001 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8206176328 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41775046761	60.5% Good	Read 104 Write 107 Mixed 104 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.29 67% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 117%
Seagate ST8000DM002-1YW112 8TB 78 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 370GB free Firmware: DN02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 153839685 (03) Spinup time 85 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11682 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 481823575 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -23716809397976 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1065 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 78 78 22 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 55 46 774701101 (BF) G-sense error rate 98 98 4965 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31564 (C2) HDA temperature 45 54 73014444077 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 6 153839685 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 36064840386404 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23190470096 (F2) Unknown 100 253 763507277	67.1% Good	Read 120 Write 113 Mixed 108 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 1.54 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 0.24 136% 1.42 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 94%

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 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	MC Read 33.1 MC Write 35.8 MC Mixed 29.3 94% 32.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 34.2 SC Mixed 24.8 74% 25.8 GB/s	Latency 60.3 66% 60.3 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 103%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,358x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,028x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	940x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $992

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 $15	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