Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (27th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 73 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 83.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Boot Drive	41.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Aug 19 '17 at 23:46
Run Duration	204 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing below expectations (27^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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Memory 75.5 1-Core 142 2-Core 275 88% 164 Pts	4-Core 495 8-Core 807 80% 651 Pts	64-Core 808 50% 808 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.9% 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: 381.65 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 120 Reflection 122 Parallax 103 98% 115 fps	Gravity 98.8 Splatting 99.6 88% 99.2 fps
Poor: 71% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 381GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 383 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7 (64) Unknown 100 100 170816 (65) Unknown 100 100 120512 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 3 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 25 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2585 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 158915231773 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 311 (EA) Unknown 100 100 219 (F1) Unknown 100 100 281 (F2) Unknown 100 100 125 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	46.3% Average	Read 370 Write 218 Mixed 210 59% 266 MB/s	4K Read 20.6 4K Write 28.3 4K Mixed 8.97 58% 19.3 MB/s	DQ Read 20.5 DQ Write 47.4 DQ Mixed 9.42 14% 25.8 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 46.3% Great: 92%
OCZ VERTEX3 90GB 979 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 34GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (0^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 90 90 16105712 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 -135686606775652 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 470 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 103 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 16105712 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 16105712 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 16105712 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27390 (EA) Unknown 0 0 22785 (F1) Unknown 0 0 22785 (F2) Unknown 0 0 30044	41.2% Average	Read 420 Write 90.9 Mixed 148 47% 220 MB/s	4K Read 16.1 4K Write 50.3 4K Mixed 8.05 61% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 17.7 DQ Write 40 DQ Mixed 6.52 11% 21.4 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 77%
WD Black 6TB (2015)-$296 5,447 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 850GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 100 0 (03) Spinup time 184 100 9791 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4974 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6908 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 28 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 100 4960 (C2) HDA temperature 123 110 29 (C4) Reallocation count 200 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 100 0	99.8% Outstanding	Read 140 Write 207 Mixed 160 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 4.08 4K Write 2.92 4K Mixed 0.36 264% 2.45 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 99.8% Great: 118%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 530GB free Firmware: JKAOA20N Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 98 (03) Spinup time 156 156 51570016716 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1831 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 112 112 39 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 42237 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 577 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2384 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2384 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 274878890017 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	52.8% Above average	Read 85.2 Write 99 Mixed 82.8 67% 89 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.32 83% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.8% Great: 69%
Seagate ST32000641AS 2TB-$174 8,506 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 407GB free Firmware: CC13 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 25131225 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14397 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25180433 (09) Power-on hours count 61 60 34893 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 434 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 521601055 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 133 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 14492 (C2) HDA temperature 31 44 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 23 25131225 (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 -126813204355969 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2572408582 (F2) Unknown 100 253 177862022	50% Above average	Read 87.1 Write 87.2 Mixed 78.3 63% 84.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.51 108% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 50% Great: 73%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.1% Good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 27.2 MC Mixed 20.4 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 16.6 55% 19.3 GB/s	Latency 89.4 45% 89.4 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 88%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,684x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,434x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	612x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,144x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	862x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	807x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	339x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	239x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	761x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	323x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	157x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $693

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $131	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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