Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 88.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	230% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171226
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 06 '18 at 00:05
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 146 2-Core 249 93% 164 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 774 73% 608 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 182 Reflection 204 Parallax 176 148% 187 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 176 Splatting 123 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Series 500GB 7,390 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 176GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5984 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2952 (B1) Unknown 96 96 40 (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 70 51 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 327 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30200014881	80.4% Excellent	Read 468 Write 308 Mixed 263 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 84.7 4K Mixed 17.2 110% 43.5 MB/s	DQ Read 310 DQ Write 184 DQ Mixed 37.5 84% 177 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 89%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 145GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	230% Outstanding	Read 2,117 Write 1,198 Mixed 1,153 328% 1,489 MB/s	4K Read 53.4 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 44.9 197% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 345 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 27.6 90% 200 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 236%
WD Red 6TB (2014)-$129 11,340 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 243 196 6833 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1053 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 652 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 359 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 139 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2266 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 40 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	88.6% Excellent	Read 154 Write 155 Mixed 148 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 2.43 4K Mixed 0.3 116% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 215279228 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1262 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6121870 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 109564615722495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 370 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 30065229831 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 52 589496355 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 808 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4391 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 77309411363 (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 -27307402067606 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2693275109 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2304735547	93.7% Outstanding	Read 169 Write 158 Mixed 122 112% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.27 97% 1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 105%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 193 175 5333 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17210 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7435 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 84 84 16653 (C0) Power-off retract count 180 180 15626 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 186 186 42060 (C2) HDA temperature 117 100 33 (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	83% Excellent	Read 146 Write 143 Mixed 125 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.27 94% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3600 C18 2x8GB 5,121 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	88.7% Excellent	MC Read 34.7 MC Write 34.7 MC Mixed 25.3 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 31.7 SC Mixed 26.4 72% 25.3 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 115%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,361x
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	1,028x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	940x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Total price: $966

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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