Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% 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 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	78.3% 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	79.9% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '17 at 22:38
Run Duration	344 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

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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 i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Memory 97 1-Core 140 2-Core 279 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 757 73% 600 Pts	64-Core 746 46% 746 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing below potential (42^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	78.3% Very good	Lighting 96.8 Reflection 107 Parallax 93.8 79% 99.1 fps	MRender 95.6 Gravity 91.2 Splatting 95.7 77% 94.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X110 128GB-$89 11,245 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 54GB free (System drive) Firmware: X231600 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 3581 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2150 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 321 (A9) Unknown 100 100 163 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 212 (AE) Unknown 100 100 89 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 47 201864445988 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1798 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 27590 (F1) Unknown 253 253 14523 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4869 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	79.9% Very good	Read 451 Write 263 Mixed 290 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 33.5 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 22.1 140% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 33.6 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 40.9 53% 89.4 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.9% Great: 89%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 209153088 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3116 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 62954172 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4219 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2607 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 9 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 62 47 639959078 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 112 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 36715 (C2) HDA temperature 38 53 60129542182 (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 125567663869003 (F1) Unknown 100 253 49961794277 (F2) Unknown 100 253 57928474496	98.1% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 156 Mixed 151 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.24 77% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98.1% Great: 114%
Verbatim STORE N GO 16GB 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 15GB free, PID 0302 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	3.81% Terrible	Read 13.9 Write 3.83 Mixed 4.89 8% 7.55 MB/s	4K Read 3.91 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.01 15% 1.31 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 3.81% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 26.8 95% 33.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 40.2 SC Mixed 30.2 88% 30.8 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 104%

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

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,707x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,440x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	614x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,148x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	866x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	343x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	767x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	160x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $664

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16