Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	92.1% 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	104% 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.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 08 '17 at 04:41
Run Duration	324 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 147 2-Core 289 98% 178 Pts	4-Core 569 8-Core 779 85% 674 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 92%

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: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 118 Parallax 98.9 96% 112 fps	MRender 99.5 Gravity 105 Splatting 103 84% 102 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 211GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5932 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 242 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 64 55 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 62 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5206239011	104% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 403 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 45.3 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 27.5 157% 57.6 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 99.3 129% 233 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 98GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 14313 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 590 (B1) Unknown 98 98 26 (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 69 57 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 268 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31603386224	113% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 402 Mixed 413 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 48.8 189% 66.4 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 35.5 80% 173 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 172 4108 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 481 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1476 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 275 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 31 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1070 (C2) HDA temperature 116 107 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	80.7% Excellent	Read 140 Write 141 Mixed 126 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 2.28 4K Mixed 0.3 111% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 86%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 1TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 80808200 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 472 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 66502240 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8894 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 283 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 521928735 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 36334 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 68719476767 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -4024384354915 (F1) Unknown 100 253 16199906108 (F2) Unknown 100 253 98729333998	64.4% Good	Read 113 Write 112 Mixed 108 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.19 78% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 96%
TRUSTED Mass Storage 17.5TB 307 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 13TB free, PID 4d10 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	7.72% Terrible	Read 6.89 Write 7.11 Mixed 6.41 9% 6.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.11 61% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.72% Great: 20%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	MC Read 35.6 MC Write 35.7 MC Mixed 26.3 93% 32.5 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 36.4 SC Mixed 29.9 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 50.4 79% 50.4 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 105%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,351x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $993

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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