Asus ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 63% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 98.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	61.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	241% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171221
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 00:33
Run Duration	268 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$193 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 138 2-Core 273 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 540 8-Core 844 85% 692 Pts	64-Core 1,123 70% 1,123 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Zotac(19DA 1370) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1430 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	61.7% Good	Lighting 78.6 Reflection 81.5 Parallax 78.4 64% 79.5 fps	MRender 77.8 Gravity 70.8 Splatting 64 57% 70.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 416GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	241% Outstanding	Read 2,287 Write 1,403 Mixed 1,300 367% 1,663 MB/s	4K Read 50.1 4K Write 82.1 4K Mixed 43.7 175% 58.6 MB/s	DQ Read 321 DQ Write 141 DQ Mixed 101 110% 188 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 241% Great: 254%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 49GB free Firmware: 526ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4496437 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 113490215851727 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 44 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 69 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 23 77 42954719255 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4496437 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4496437 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4496437 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 20759 (EA) Unknown 0 0 28127 (F1) Unknown 0 0 28127 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8137	65.8% Good	Read 499 Write 145 Mixed 205 62% 283 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 18.4 103% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 44.7 63% 117 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 87%
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC128MAG 128GB 2,094 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 29GB free Firmware: 0007 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 45136 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 143 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 83 83 898 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 31168943556233 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 198 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 83 83 17 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	54.6% Above average	Read 348 Write 136 Mixed 194 50% 226 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 73 4K Mixed 4.64 90% 35.8 MB/s	DQ Read 217 DQ Write 131 DQ Mixed 18.3 56% 122 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 62%
WD Black 4TB (2016)-$146 9,888 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 3.5TB free Firmware: 81.H0A81 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^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 30064771072 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 154620264483 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	119% Outstanding	Read 210 Write 206 Mixed 188 151% 201 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 3.28 4K Mixed 0.55 162% 1.6 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 113%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 161GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 175 170 4241 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1720 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 28755 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 164 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1650 (C2) HDA temperature 119 108 28 (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	56.9% Above average	Read 80.8 Write 117 Mixed 111 78% 103 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.17 67% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 56.9% Great: 86%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 151GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 171 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2516 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 43898 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 186 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 79 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2436 (C2) HDA temperature 116 101 31 (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	51.1% Above average	Read 98.5 Write 79.2 Mixed 83 65% 86.9 MB/s	4K Read 1.02 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.49 133% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 51.1% Great: 76%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$8 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 21GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	17.2% Very poor	Read 39 Write 18.1 Mixed 22.7 30% 26.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.36 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 1.39 136% 2.63 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU16GX4M2D3200C16 4x8GB 26 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38.7 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 30.8 103% 36.2 GB/s	SC Read 21.9 SC Write 45.4 SC Mixed 31 94% 32.8 GB/s	Latency 53.5 75% 53.5 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 110%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-H GAMING - $170

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $193Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	2,063x
Core i5-8600KIntel $139Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	728x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	402x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	484x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	424x
GTX 1070-TiNvidia $299Bench 94%, 412,133 samples	276x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	189x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	186x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	138x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	177x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	128x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $30Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	127x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $936

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16