Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% 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	49.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	May 06 '18 at 00:46
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	29%

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PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 93.5 1-Core 132 2-Core 258 90% 161 Pts	4-Core 455 8-Core 718 72% 586 Pts	64-Core 721 45% 721 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6284) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 146 Reflection 146 Parallax 138 119% 144 fps	MRender 113 Gravity 135 Splatting 107 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 127GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2986 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 581 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 69 52 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 80 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5722485460	111% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 412 Mixed 403 98% 443 MB/s	4K Read 45.7 4K Write 79.2 4K Mixed 46.6 171% 57.2 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 118 133% 229 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Intel Raid 0 Volume 240GB 13,500 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 119GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	49.8% Average	Read 415 Write 81 Mixed 124 44% 207 MB/s	4K Read 25.7 4K Write 66.3 4K Mixed 4.46 80% 32.1 MB/s	DQ Read 163 DQ Write 124 DQ Mixed 3.15 41% 96.9 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 133%
Hitachi Deskstar 7K3000 3TB-$63 6,344 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2.5TB free Firmware: MKAOAA10 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 135 135 84 (03) Spinup time 138 138 51572834914 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 574 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 31 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1716 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 324 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1041 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1041 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 240519610412 (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	73.8% Very good	Read 136 Write 122 Mixed 118 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.36 82% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 701GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 39235232 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6353 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 4301272528 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12983 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 566 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 41 833862696998 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 82 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18908 (C2) HDA temperature 38 59 77309411366 (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 -53708566034466 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11409317394 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26169194138	82.4% Excellent	Read 130 Write 158 Mixed 138 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.19 72% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GB-$42 66,222 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	MC Read 29.9 MC Write 31.7 MC Mixed 26.4 84% 29.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.2 SC Write 32.5 SC Mixed 26.2 70% 24.6 GB/s	Latency 60.9 66% 60.9 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 88%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $439

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,902x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	765x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	364x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	907x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	783x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	780x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	268x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	266x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	196x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	355x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	288x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	138x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $1,223

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	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