Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.1% 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	129% 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 (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170405
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 01:23
Run Duration	140 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (50^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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 97.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 219 86% 148 Pts	4-Core 434 8-Core 689 69% 562 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.1% Very good	Lighting 98.3 Reflection 96.3 Parallax 120 80% 105 fps	MRender 90.7 Gravity 106 Splatting 79.5 74% 92 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$320 1,236 User benchmarks, average bench 164% 389GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FT04.6 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Read 1,586 Write 800 Mixed 1,210 265% 1,199 MB/s	4K Read 14.8 4K Write 21.2 4K Mixed 12.9 50% 16.3 MB/s	DQ Read 33 DQ Write 32.8 DQ Mixed 17.1 17% 27.6 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 209%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 339GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6503 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1536 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 56 38 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 57 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31159131859	63.1% Good	Read 517 Write 410 Mixed 407 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 17.4 4K Mixed 11.4 48% 14.8 MB/s	DQ Read 72.3 DQ Write 65.1 DQ Mixed 36.3 36% 57.9 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 63.1% Great: 134%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 651GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 114 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3463 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2099 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11133 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1909 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 14 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 51 210453856296 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 30447 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 274 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 357564	54.4% Above average	Read 93.6 Write 95.7 Mixed 88.5 70% 92.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.3 87% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 54.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 20,017 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)	98.9% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 37.7 MC Mixed 30 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 39 SC Mixed 28.7 83% 29 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 122%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	118x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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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