Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 22% Surfboard	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 19% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	16% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	254% 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.

Very high background CPU (39%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	8.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '17 at 01:08
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	39%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 132 2-Core 242 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 422 8-Core 527 61% 475 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5850 15,020 User benchmarks, average bench 15% XFX(1682 2970) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	16% Very poor	Lighting 22.1 Reflection 12.8 Parallax 20.1 18% 18.3 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 16.3 Splatting 16.3 12% 14.5 fps
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 16% Great: 16%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 235GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 39226 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 182 (B1) Unknown 66 66 1216 (B3) Unknown 100 99 0 (B5) Unknown 100 99 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 140 (F1) Unknown 99 99 396092568554	98.5% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 447 Mixed 499 109% 488 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 84.3 4K Mixed 26.8 132% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 185 DQ Mixed 71.5 102% 192 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 116%
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 169GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	254% Outstanding	Read 2,653 Write 1,249 Mixed 1,399 388% 1,767 MB/s	4K Read 57.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 46.5 202% 69.1 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 148 DQ Mixed 92.9 110% 197 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 254% Great: 236%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$79 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 0 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5058 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 62 12902759679 (09) Power-on hours count 21 11 69832 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 107 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 67 36859973083547 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 55 672923677 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 38 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11490 (C2) HDA temperature 29 45 98784247837 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 5 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 37714107842607 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2567957488 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1722020381	68.1% Good	Read 121 Write 117 Mixed 107 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.68 124% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 68.1% Great: 75%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 701GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 5183 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1879 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 1 1 75844 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1024 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 813 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1847 (C2) HDA temperature 115 103 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	61.1% Good	Read 112 Write 101 Mixed 94.2 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.67 4K Mixed 0.49 139% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 76%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 436GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 175 3483 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6586 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 24 24 55848 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 433 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 374 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6211 (C2) HDA temperature 114 100 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	60.1% Good	Read 102 Write 107 Mixed 85.3 74% 98.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.44 111% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$40 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76% Very good	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 29.5 MC Mixed 26.1 81% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 16.8 SC Mixed 14.8 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 110%

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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	3,710x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,441x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	614x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,150x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	867x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	373x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	343x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 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: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $648

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 $163	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) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16