Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 97.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	64.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	110% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	27.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	3.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 18 '18 at 05:09
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.45 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 149 2-Core 300 99% 181 Pts	4-Core 588 8-Core 590 79% 589 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.2% Good	Lighting 80.9 Reflection 79.7 Parallax 70.5 66% 77 fps	MRender 73.8 Gravity 73.2 Splatting 75.4 61% 74.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9278 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 215 (B1) Unknown 96 96 67 (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 61 50 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25036163197	110% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 407 Mixed 420 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 99.7 4K Mixed 44.4 164% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 113 142% 254 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 124%
Seagate ST9320423AS 320GB-$40 13,598 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 297GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 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 116 99 103508482 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10310 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 4686994044 (09) Power-on hours count 60 60 35711 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4213 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 51 773324830 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 7 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 808556 (C2) HDA temperature 30 49 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 53 45 103508482 (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 85280870657877 (F1) Unknown 100 253 455029199 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2074765333 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	50.3% Above average	Read 85.6 Write 89.7 Mixed 69.7 61% 81.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.44 95% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 51%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 150GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 160 157 5000 (04) Start/Stop count 77 77 23126 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 43 43 42296 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7363 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 232 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 193 193 23115 (C2) HDA temperature 111 96 36 (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	53.7% Above average	Read 94.7 Write 92.2 Mixed 63.7 62% 83.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.89 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 30,689 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	79.3% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 25.3 80% 27.8 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 31.3 SC Mixed 24.4 71% 24.9 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 118%

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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 $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,350x
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	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x

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	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 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: $1,001

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