Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.1% 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	77.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1280 x 720 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170928
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 00:18
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 141 2-Core 280 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 518 8-Core 780 81% 649 Pts	64-Core 780 48% 780 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Lighting 115 Reflection 123 Parallax 103 93% 114 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 106 Splatting 108 86% 105 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue 3D SATA M.2 1TB-$102 9,497 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 839GB free (System drive) Firmware: X61130WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 94 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (A5) Unknown 100 100 917512 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 63 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 550 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 47 66 283469283381 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4294967297 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 153 (EA) Unknown 100 100 202 (F1) Unknown 253 253 195 (F2) Unknown 253 253 171 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	77.7% Very good	Read 507 Write 353 Mixed 358 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 79.9 4K Mixed 16 114% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 40.6 DQ Write 92.1 DQ Mixed 51.3 43% 61.3 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 77.7% Great: 120%
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 32GB free Firmware: 582ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10753245 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 39462159534251 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 462 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 199 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10753245 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10753245 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10753245 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 8589934593 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11027 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8792 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8792 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9387	55.2% Above average	Read 328 Write 110 Mixed 158 43% 199 MB/s	4K Read 27.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 11.3 114% 49.4 MB/s	DQ Read 32 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 37.3 38% 59.8 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 55.2% Great: 83%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4.5TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5975 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 94 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 85 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 158915035172 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 50 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 529 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 109%

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 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	MC Read 37 MC Write 36.7 MC Mixed 27.1 96% 33.6 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 37.6 SC Mixed 31.3 87% 30.3 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 104%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	118x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $749

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $186	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