Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 80.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.7% 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	157% 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	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 (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180322
Uptime	3.5 Days
Run Date	Jul 15 '19 at 23:11
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

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PC Performing below expectations (35^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	Memory 84.6 1-Core 98.5 2-Core 228 76% 137 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 707 68% 561 Pts	64-Core 884 55% 884 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 411.31 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	84.7% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 130 Parallax 102 85% 112 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 107 Splatting 99.7 84% 103 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 99GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 623 305 302 300 298 296 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	157% Outstanding	Read 1,599 Write 1,273 Mixed 621 SusWrite 354 213% 962 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 75.8 4K Mixed 41.5 143% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 757 DQ Write 480 DQ Mixed 634 469% 624 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 157% Great: 254%
WDC WDBNCE5000PNC 500GB 11,302 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 102GB free Firmware: X61130WD SusWrite @10s intervals: 405 390 395 392 392 397 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Read 390 Write 375 Mixed 322 SusWrite 395 84% 371 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 43.2 4K Mixed 27.6 93% 31.3 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 331 DQ Mixed 286 232% 330 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 118%
SanDisk SDDR-339 64GB 37 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 32GB free, PID cfc5 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 108 105 104 104 100 110 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	56.4% Above average	Read 183 Write 83.5 Mixed 39.5 SusWrite 105 122% 103 MB/s	4K Read 8.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 2.3 165% 4.23 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 56.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMW32GX4M4C3000C15 4x8GB 6,011 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	87.3% Excellent	MC Read 33.7 MC Write 35.5 MC Mixed 27.8 92% 32.3 GB/s	SC Read 14.5 SC Write 26.2 SC Mixed 24.4 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 113%

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

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING - $210

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	7,128x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	1,253x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	565x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,667x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,208x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	654x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	537x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	499x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	427x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	563x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	511x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	473x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $979

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