Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (37th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 63 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 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 98%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	69% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	95.7% 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	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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Run History

2 days ago, 2 days ago, 2 days ago, 2 days ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	8.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	3.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 09:33
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i7-7700K-$306 148,112 User benchmarks, average bench 99% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	98% Outstanding	SC Int 134 SC Float 143 SC Mixed 140 111% 139 Pts	QC Int 456 QC Float 470 QC Mixed 476 106% 467 Pts	MC Int 660 MC Float 766 MC Mixed 731 107% 719 Pts
Poor: 87% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 113%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$298 236,054 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	69% Good	Lighting 210 Reflection 189 Parallax 222 66% 207 fps	MRender 144 Gravity 200 Splatting 152 71% 165 fps
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 79%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 6,971 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 123GB free Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s SYSTEM NCQ 4KALIGNED SSD TRIM S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4677 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1015 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 59 45 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 18204113435	95.7% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 401 Mixed 404 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 28.7 160% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 48.2 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 28.5 37% 63.6 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 116%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$99 14,198 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 75603592 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 957 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3399027 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4462 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 955 (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 60 55 706150440 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 977 (C2) HDA temperature 40 45 77309411368 (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 -87299505253704 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3441566439 (F2) Unknown 100 253 166346504127	86.5% Excellent	Read 130 Write 171 Mixed 124 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 5.07 4K Mixed 0.62 188% 2.1 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$210 9,353 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled	38.3% Below average	MC Read 13.3 MC Write 13.2 MC Mixed 11.1 36% 12.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.7 SC Write 12.4 SC Mixed 12.2 35% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 69.4 58% 69.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 108%

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

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Gaming 96%

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Desktop 91%

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Workstation 70%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $150

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $306Bench 99%, 148,112 samples	5,153x
Core i5-7600KIntel $216Bench 95%, 55,411 samples	2,172x
Core i7-7700Intel $290Bench 86%, 37,848 samples	379x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 282,479 samples	1,930x
GTX 1080Nvidia $550Bench 126%, 192,874 samples	1,422x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $298Bench 71%, 236,054 samples	1,184x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 270,334 samples	1,204x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 96%, 197,216 samples	950x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $120Bench 217%, 90,539 samples	821x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $190Bench 84%, 64,150 samples	1,505x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $204Bench 90%, 39,089 samples	628x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $196Bench 83%, 11,215 samples	307x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $1,172

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $347	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $160	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $298	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
Intel Core i7-7700K $306	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $163

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $190	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $975	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $59	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $204	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12