Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


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 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 83.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	130% 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	222% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (73%). 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	29.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 23 '18 at 01:26
Run Duration	131 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	73%

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 i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 97.7 2-Core 205 75% 131 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 706 68% 562 Pts	64-Core 701 43% 701 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 84%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	130% Outstanding	Lighting 184 Reflection 189 Parallax 195 150% 189 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 178 Splatting 119 112% 139 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 130% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 659GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	222% Outstanding	Read 1,810 Write 1,315 Mixed 1,294 327% 1,473 MB/s	4K Read 46.4 4K Write 92.8 4K Mixed 49.5 183% 62.9 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 28.3 94% 210 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 222% Great: 302%
WD Gold 6TB (2016) -$183 2,043 User benchmarks, average bench 101% 5.5TB free Firmware: 01.01M02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 138 138 100 (03) Spinup time 143 143 30095704509 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 51 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 34 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 40 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 155 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 155 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 201864445996 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	111% Outstanding	Read 195 Write 191 Mixed 199 147% 195 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 3.8 4K Mixed 0.6 179% 1.8 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 121%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 978GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 175 7483 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6371 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7493 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2753 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 84 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 13790 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	70.4% Very good	Read 148 Write 97.5 Mixed 94.9 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.19 78% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 8,488 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	79.8% Very good	MC Read 29 MC Write 30.5 MC Mixed 25.2 81% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 31.8 SC Mixed 24.5 70% 24.6 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 89%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,689x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,435x
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	863x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x

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	240x

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	158x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $693

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $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