Asrock Z270 Gaming K6

Performance Results


Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 72.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	75.6% 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	83.7% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z270 Gaming K6 (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161103
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '17 at 11:51
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	27%

PC Performing below expectations (28^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	72.1% Very good	Memory 79.8 1-Core 134 2-Core 239 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 362 8-Core 428 51% 395 Pts	64-Core 453 28% 453 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	75.6% Very good	Lighting 98 Reflection 105 Parallax 94 80% 98.9 fps	MRender 86 Gravity 89.6 Splatting 73.9 67% 83.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12807 (0C) Power cycle count 86 86 13980 (B1) Unknown 94 94 64 (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 65 46 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 49538186009	83.7% Excellent	Read 492 Write 337 Mixed 335 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 72.7 4K Mixed 20.2 129% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 45 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 20.2 50% 98.3 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.7% Great: 108%
OCZ VERTEX2 60GB 4,861 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 7GB free Firmware: 1.32 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -34780645136724 (0C) Power cycle count 86 86 14600 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 61 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 3520 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2752 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2752 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6464	41.2% Average	Read 185 Write 82.1 Mixed 120 28% 129 MB/s	4K Read 23.6 4K Write 61.7 4K Mixed 13.7 86% 33 MB/s	DQ Read 98.2 DQ Write 69.6 DQ Mixed 29 36% 65.6 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 41.2% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 36GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 204917414 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 69 69 32382 (05) Reallocated sector count 61 61 1613 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 133227307542 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 43485 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 86 86 14667 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 72 72 28 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065667 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 48 471466012 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 55834574876 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 41 17 204917414 (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 127775277126197 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3754917580 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1620674440	33.5% Below average	Read 36.5 Write 80.2 Mixed 78.4 50% 65 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.37 79% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.8% Average	MC Read 15.8 MC Write 15.6 MC Mixed 12.8 42% 14.7 GB/s	SC Read 12.2 SC Write 13.6 SC Mixed 11.1 35% 12.3 GB/s	Latency 80.9 49% 80.9 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 42.8% Great: 90%

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Gaming 70%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 60%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z270 Gaming K6

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	371x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	79x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	69x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	107x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	95x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	78x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	37x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	25x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	34x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	26x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	20x

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Value: 98% - Outstanding

Total price: $483

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16