Asus PRIME Z370-A

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 55% Yacht	Workstation 11% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an average single core score, this CPU can handle browsing the web, email, video playback and the majority of general computing tasks including light gaming when coupled with an appropriate GPU. Finally, with a gaming score of 68.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	3.36% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	166% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z370-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171101
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 17 '18 at 23:20
Run Duration	218 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$173 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 2.9 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	68.6% Good	Memory 74.5 1-Core 27.9 2-Core 96.9 42% 66.4 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 859 67% 597 Pts	64-Core 878 54% 878 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 101%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GT 720 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 4% Asus(1043 84F2) 2GB CLim: 797 MHz, MLim: 450 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile)	3.36% Terrible	Lighting 4 Reflection 3.69 Parallax 3.81 3% 3.83 fps	MRender 4.24 Gravity 3.27 Splatting 5.17 4% 4.23 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.36% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 203GB free Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 864 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 683 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2564141023913 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 15 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 38 266287972392 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 974963540195 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1488 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6379 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3731 (F2) Unknown 253 253 3592 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	50.7% Above average	Read 476 Write 237 Mixed 300 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 14.6 4K Write 33.6 4K Mixed 3.73 45% 17.3 MB/s	DQ Read 127 DQ Write 85.1 DQ Mixed 5.98 31% 72.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 86%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 89GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	166% Outstanding	Read 1,844 Write 1,022 Mixed 1,160 296% 1,342 MB/s	4K Read 21.8 4K Write 36.1 4K Mixed 25.9 85% 27.9 MB/s	DQ Read 95.9 DQ Write 58.7 DQ Mixed 29 35% 61.2 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 166% Great: 236%
Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB-$159 43,620 User benchmarks, average bench 41% 1TB free Firmware: GM4OA5CA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 98 98 65539 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 138 (03) Spinup time 117 117 25791103306 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 11217 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 131 131 29 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6720 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 7147 (C0) Power-off retract count 91 91 11235 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 11235 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 270583332902 (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	49.6% Average	Read 86.9 Write 85.7 Mixed 86.9 65% 86.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.46 109% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 51%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$50 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 287GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 165 4391 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5556 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4928 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4225 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 545 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5010 (C2) HDA temperature 106 87 41 (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 3	57.9% Above average	Read 108 Write 93.9 Mixed 86.2 72% 95.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.31 93% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 57.9% Great: 74%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 308GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 149 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 68 8892 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9922 (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 2052 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4837 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1831 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 45 236223725603 (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 5 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 11142	60.9% Good	Read 91.6 Write 120 Mixed 90.1 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.59 135% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	73.3% Very good	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 24.2 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 9.9 SC Mixed 9.6 33% 11.5 GB/s	Latency 91.4 44% 91.4 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.3% Great: 90%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z370-A - $132

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	5,934x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	2,108x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	924x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,107x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,056x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	737x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	534x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	489x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	403x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	841x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	313x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	305x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $926

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