Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 126% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 110% UFO


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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	137% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	190% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	4.5 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 10:19
Run Duration	396 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

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 i7-7700K-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 92.3 1-Core 144 2-Core 287 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 498 8-Core 786 79% 642 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Lighting 195 Reflection 204 Parallax 187 159% 195 fps	MRender 129 Gravity 190 Splatting 132 122% 150 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 140GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	190% Outstanding	Read 1,864 Write 973 Mixed 1,117 290% 1,318 MB/s	4K Read 41.4 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 26.6 157% 60.7 MB/s	DQ Read 49.7 DQ Write 398 DQ Mixed 24.1 78% 157 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 190% Great: 236%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 39GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2195 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 348 (B1) Unknown 96 96 44 (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 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 7 (EB) Unknown 99 99 118 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4713929054	82.2% Excellent	Read 485 Write 333 Mixed 326 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 83.7 4K Mixed 19.6 125% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 39.3 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 19 50% 98.9 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 82.2% Great: 108%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 20GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9508 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1634 (B1) Unknown 91 91 293 (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 74 59 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 52 (F1) Unknown 99 99 46822690316	59.7% Above average	Read 493 Write 263 Mixed 339 80% 365 MB/s	4K Read 19 4K Write 58.4 4K Mixed 13.3 77% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 19.8 DQ Write 44.7 DQ Mixed 57.4 36% 40.7 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 641GB free Firmware: CC98 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 63860120 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4304 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 28181051 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5934 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1634 (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 71 58 487981085 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4757 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 64424509469 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 8 63860120 (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 17300128275467 (F1) Unknown 100 253 609779801 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2418180674	67.4% Good	Read 116 Write 119 Mixed 111 87% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 0.9 4K Mixed 0.14 60% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 67.4% Great: 69%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8GB 30,139 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 7GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	9.16% Terrible	Read 18 Write 3.3 Mixed 5.15 8% 8.82 MB/s	4K Read 6.51 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.86 101% 2.92 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.16% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.4 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 24 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 63.5 63% 63.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 104%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,695x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,438x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	613x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	341x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	765x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	159x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $684

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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