Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.23% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	89.5% 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 (58%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	26.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180511
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 23 '19 at 13:40
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	PHL-User
Background CPU	58%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	84.9% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 79.9 2-Core 222 75% 132 Pts	4-Core 409 8-Core 602 63% 506 Pts	64-Core 666 41% 666 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 25.20.100.6471 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	7.23% Terrible	Lighting 7.57 Reflection 10.8 Parallax 7.44 6% 8.62 fps	MRender 11 Gravity 6.8 Splatting 14.9 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.23% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Transcend SSD370S 256GB-$115 11,742 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114H SusWrite @10s intervals: 285 282 286 203 200 279 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Read 490 Write 294 Mixed 272 SusWrite 256 73% 328 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 88.7 4K Mixed 37.7 136% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 274 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 178 161% 243 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 114%
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 500GB-$30 168,449 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 189GB free Firmware: SDM1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 85 83 83 85 84 84 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	27.3% Poor	Read 11.3 Write 47.7 Mixed 13.8 SusWrite 84 28% 39.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.3 47% 0.3 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 27.3% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 985 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 2 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	79.7% Very good	MC Read 31.8 MC Write 31.6 MC Mixed 25.1 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 22.7 SC Mixed 16.4 49% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 92%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	118x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $735

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