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 (31st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 69 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

5 months ago, 5 months ago, 5 months ago, 5 months 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 (31^st 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-$339 189,529 User benchmarks, average bench 96% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (65^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: 82% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 111%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$64 354,940 User benchmarks, average bench 72% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	69% Good	Lighting 210 Reflection 189 Parallax 222 66% 207 fps	MRender 144 Gravity 200 Splatting 152 71% 165 fps
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 78%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 8,958 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 123GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd 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: 77% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 132%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$95 20,978 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st 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: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$173 12,811 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 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: 50% ↑ 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 92%

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Workstation 70%

Battle cruiser

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $339Bench 96%, 189,529 samples	6,487x
Core i5-7600KIntel $234Bench 92%, 68,210 samples	2,733x
Core i7-7700Intel $299Bench 84%, 51,837 samples	502x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $344Bench 99%, 356,308 samples	2,366x
GTX 1080Nvidia $457Bench 126%, 289,021 samples	1,872x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $64Bench 72%, 354,940 samples	1,531x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $83Bench 105%, 306,022 samples	1,485x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $115Bench 112%, 222,186 samples	1,184x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $94Bench 198%, 105,726 samples	1,017x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $147Bench 86%, 96,838 samples	1,868x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $167Bench 90%, 48,647 samples	749x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $166Bench 84%, 14,142 samples	364x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,072

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $370	Nvidia GTX 1070 $344	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $83
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $150	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $64	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $115
Intel Core i5-8600K $249	AMD RX 480 $280	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $135

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $43	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $147	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $80
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $78	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $869	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $30
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $38	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $167	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $11