Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	94.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (63%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Oct 12 '18 at 10:39
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	63%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	80.3% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 107 2-Core 208 78% 135 Pts	4-Core 382 8-Core 533 58% 457 Pts	64-Core 640 40% 640 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3706) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2042 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 411.70 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.7% Outstanding	Lighting 121 Reflection 120 Parallax 107 99% 116 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 109 Splatting 108 87% 106 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 94.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 500GB-$94 19,345 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 233GB free (System drive) Firmware: X411 SusWrite @10s intervals: 253 206 257 240 114 198 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Read 307 Write 169 Mixed 154 SusWrite 211 47% 210 MB/s	4K Read 12 4K Write 93.8 4K Mixed 23.7 98% 43.2 MB/s	DQ Read 380 DQ Write 290 DQ Mixed 223 197% 298 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 107%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 40 42 53 45 54 39 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile)	18.2% Very poor	Read 18 Write 33.5 Mixed 18.8 SusWrite 45.5 21% 29 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.4 4K Mixed 0.1 23% 0.2 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 18.2% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2176 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	64.7% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 24.9 MC Mixed 19.9 66% 23.2 GB/s	SC Read 14.3 SC Write 18.5 SC Mixed 18 48% 16.9 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 104%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $685

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 $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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