Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	74.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	181% 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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170405
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 01:06
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	42%

PC Performing as expected (51^st 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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 96.3 1-Core 119 2-Core 219 84% 145 Pts	4-Core 411 8-Core 590 63% 500 Pts	64-Core 598 37% 598 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	74.1% Very good	Lighting 91.5 Reflection 112 Parallax 119 75% 107 fps	MRender 80 Gravity 108 Splatting 81.8 73% 90 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe M.2 480GB-$320 1,236 User benchmarks, average bench 164% 379GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FT04.6 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	181% Outstanding	Read 2,380 Write 1,070 Mixed 1,282 346% 1,577 MB/s	4K Read 15.7 4K Write 25.4 4K Mixed 16.7 59% 19.3 MB/s	DQ Read 46.9 DQ Write 40.8 DQ Mixed 23.9 23% 37.2 MB/s
Poor: 107% ↑ This bench: 181% Great: 209%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 333GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6497 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1530 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 57 38 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 54 (F1) Unknown 99 99 31001488107	64.4% Good	Read 510 Write 411 Mixed 421 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 17.8 4K Write 22.6 4K Mixed 12.7 55% 17.7 MB/s	DQ Read 59.2 DQ Write 46.1 DQ Mixed 17.8 23% 41 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 134%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 651GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 114 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3453 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2093 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11127 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1903 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 14 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 51 210453856297 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 30447 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 274 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 357442	54.5% Above average	Read 94.8 Write 95 Mixed 92 71% 93.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.3 85% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 54.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C14 2x8GB 20,017 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3100 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	88.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 35.5 MC Mixed 28.3 90% 31.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 32.4 SC Mixed 25.4 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 52.9 76% 52.9 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 122%

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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 $242Bench 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 $485Bench 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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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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