Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (24th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 76 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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	114% 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	104% 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.

Very high background CPU (97%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	26 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171101
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 20 '18 at 18:32
Run Duration	383 Seconds
Run User	VNM-User
Background CPU	97%

PC Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	72.2% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 86.8 2-Core 176 67% 115 Pts	4-Core 335 8-Core 672 59% 504 Pts	64-Core 1,003 62% 1,003 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E5) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	114% Outstanding	Lighting 148 Reflection 158 Parallax 129 121% 145 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 173 Splatting 121 113% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 860 Pro 256GB-$90 12,565 User benchmarks, average bench 109% 117GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVM01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 9 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 58 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 343959683	104% Outstanding	Read 529 Write 498 Mixed 516 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 39.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 27.4 150% 57.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32.3 DQ Write 329 DQ Mixed 112 107% 158 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 131%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$78 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 180 5933 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 9 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 96 (C2) HDA temperature 118 118 32 (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	61.8% Good	Read 105 Write 110 Mixed 112 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 2.34 4K Mixed 0.28 111% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 61.8% Great: 84%
JetFlash Transcend 4GB 970 User benchmarks, average bench 6% 2GB free, PID 6387 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)	3.53% Terrible	Read 13.9 Write 2.87 Mixed 4.98 7% 7.24 MB/s	4K Read 3.75 4K Write 0.004 4K Mixed 0.003 14% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 3.53% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C15 2x16GB 1,959 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	73.8% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23.2 76% 26.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 27.1 SC Mixed 20 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 76.8 52% 76.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 115%

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

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-F GAMING - $477

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	4,760x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	1,042x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	478x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,355x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	809x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	399x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	346x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	295x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	281x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	405x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	329x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	264x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $1,246

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