Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 89%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84% 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	188% 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	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.

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Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180411
Uptime	31 Days
Run Date	Dec 14 '19 at 02:51
Run Duration	184 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	24%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8600K-$173 264,837 User benchmarks, average bench 91% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 3.5 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	89% Excellent	Memory 95.9 1-Core 112 2-Core 225 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 444 8-Core 628 67% 536 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 89% Great: 101%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 441.66 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 110 Parallax 91.9 87% 103 fps	MRender 93.9 Gravity 96.2 Splatting 97.3 79% 95.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 566 178 135 106 106 111 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile)	188% Outstanding	Read 1780 Write 731 Mixed 618 SusWrite 200 182% 832 MB/s	4K Read 48.1 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 55 217% 80.5 MB/s	DQ Read 1,044 DQ Write 701 DQ Mixed 796 615% 847 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 188% Great: 254%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 22GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 144 143 143 142 142 142 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Read 462 Write 254 Mixed 170 SusWrite 143 57% 257 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 30.2 154% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 370 DQ Write 156 DQ Mixed 66.2 101% 197 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 108%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 86GB free Firmware: X2316RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 293 294 294 294 294 292 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	92.2% Outstanding	Read 441 Write 212 Mixed 209 SusWrite 293 64% 289 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 37 148% 56.6 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 197 DQ Mixed 122 127% 212 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 91%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 154GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 395 299 299 299 299 299 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	122% Outstanding	Read 461 Write 446 Mixed 401 SusWrite 315 91% 406 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 64.7 218% 77.7 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 343 DQ Mixed 357 269% 360 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 SusWrite @10s intervals: 180 189 192 192 191 192 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 187 Write 142 Mixed 83.5 SusWrite 189 110% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.7 138% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 30,943 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	94.3% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 35.9 MC Mixed 27.8 96% 33.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 33.5 SC Mixed 27.9 77% 26.9 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 103%

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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	7,129x
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	1,668x
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 $295	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