Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 95.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	85.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Feb 22 '18 at 01:47
Run Duration	148 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Memory 92.9 1-Core 147 2-Core 292 97% 177 Pts	4-Core 530 8-Core 799 83% 665 Pts	64-Core 804 50% 804 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6274) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2152 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	85.7% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 109 Parallax 95.6 89% 105 fps	MRender 102 Gravity 95.4 Splatting 95.6 80% 97.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 EVO 250GB 5 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 506GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 161 159 4933 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7400 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10707 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6255 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 167 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7399 (C2) HDA temperature 100 96 47 (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	8.75% Terrible	Read 99.1 Write 70.1 Mixed 68.1 18% 79.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.29 2% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 8.75% Great: 12%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: HP51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 122354096 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2179 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 64882663 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6776 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 525 (B4) Unknown 100 100 432421525 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 53 706215975 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 24 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15676 (C2) HDA temperature 39 47 68719476775 (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	99% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 168 Mixed 173 130% 173 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 114%
Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164 250GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 129GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3848 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 469 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 56 50 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 11 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8817121968
Poor: 30% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
PNY 8GBF2X04HEEE36-12-K 2x8GB 243 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	76.4% Very good	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 23.6 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 24.2 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 96%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,766x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,458x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	630x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,161x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	877x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	822x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	378x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	348x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	775x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	332x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	161x

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Total price: $805

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