Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	99% 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	170% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). 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, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 18:02
Run Duration	195 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 143 2-Core 287 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 483 8-Core 790 78% 637 Pts	64-Core 793 49% 793 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	99% Outstanding	Lighting 127 Reflection 143 Parallax 124 103% 131 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 128 Splatting 107 91% 111 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 76GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	170% Outstanding	Read 1,550 Write 768 Mixed 997 243% 1,105 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 42.6 184% 76.4 MB/s	DQ Read 43.8 DQ Write 186 DQ Mixed 25.3 46% 85.1 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 170% Great: 243%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 62GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 13516 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 551 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 17 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2814942437	91.4% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 406 Mixed 421 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 34.3 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 26.5 146% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 38.3 DQ Write 120 DQ Mixed 26.3 35% 61.4 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 9GB free Firmware: EXT0BB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 28471 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1296 (B1) Unknown 98 98 17 (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 71 53 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 166 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4628254399	85.7% Excellent	Read 492 Write 281 Mixed 301 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 86.3 4K Mixed 21.6 122% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 62.8 110% 218 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 108%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 170 8133 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4384 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13527 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 545 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 183 183 51726 (C2) HDA temperature 126 103 26 (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	66.4% Good	Read 113 Write 118 Mixed 115 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.22 102% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 101%
WD My Book 1TB 10,299 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 60GB free, PID 1100 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	19.3% Very poor	Read 35.1 Write 35.3 Mixed 35.3 46% 35.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.09 4K Mixed 0.25 81% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 19.3% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	MC Read 33.4 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 28 92% 32.1 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 38.5 SC Mixed 28.1 84% 29.3 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 85%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $439

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $234Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,972x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	776x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	375x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	925x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	795x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	788x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	272x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	271x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	200x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	362x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	292x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	140x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $1,001

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $164	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $149
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $359