Asus PRIME Z270-K

Performance Results


Gaming 107% UFO	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 86% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
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	85.7% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-K (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 17 '18 at 21:51
Run Duration	165 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 147 2-Core 294 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 539 8-Core 555 73% 547 Pts	64-Core 571 35% 571 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 330F) CLim: 2176 MHz, MLim: 2083 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 160 Parallax 133 118% 146 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 139 Splatting 119 99% 121 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 231GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3272 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 916 (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 67 57 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7200521409	102% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 410 Mixed 421 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 24.5 146% 56.2 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 118 143% 253 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 124%
OCZ ARC 100 120GB-$82 4,735 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 110GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6392 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1389 (AB) Unknown 100 100 40825936 (AE) Unknown 100 100 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 65 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 98 98 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2739 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2950 (F9) Unknown 100 100 118218703	78% Very good	Read 444 Write 372 Mixed 407 91% 408 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 14.8 117% 52.2 MB/s	DQ Read 21.7 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 70.7 60% 83.2 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 98%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7580 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2571 (E8) Unknown 100 100 31250402668 (E9) Unknown 96 0 96	85.7% Excellent	Read 472 Write 374 Mixed 384 91% 410 MB/s	4K Read 24.2 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 17.4 127% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 31.2 DQ Write 298 DQ Mixed 114 103% 148 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 104%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 928GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 12 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9320 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4937 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5603 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2514 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159282207 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 3 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 39610	78.6% Very good	Read 126 Write 148 Mixed 136 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.56 132% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 17,029 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3111 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	98.9% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 38.9 MC Mixed 29.2 100% 34.8 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 38.5 SC Mixed 30.6 87% 30.4 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 108%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-K - $74

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	941x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	452x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	319x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	295x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	261x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	69x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	136x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	63x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $644

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16