Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


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 99.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	69.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	68.5% 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170928
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 16 '18 at 20:30
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

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 i7-7700K-$249 712,312 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 (100^th percentile)	99.1% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 142 2-Core 275 96% 171 Pts	4-Core 545 8-Core 779 83% 662 Pts	64-Core 778 48% 778 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1543 MHz, MLim: 1852 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	69.7% Good	Lighting 89.2 Reflection 88.7 Parallax 78 73% 85.3 fps	MRender 85.5 Gravity 80.2 Splatting 71 64% 78.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$175 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 101GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 28304 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3059 (B1) Unknown 90 90 337 (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 45 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 244 (F1) Unknown 99 99 78348842456	68.5% Good	Read 499 Write 426 Mixed 418 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 39.4 4K Mixed 14.6 69% 24.4 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 64 DQ Mixed 15.4 20% 34.5 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 116%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$62 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 618GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 35924512 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 468 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 28933851 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3481 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 426 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 20585 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 68 57 538050592 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 29445 (C2) HDA temperature 32 43 51539607584 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 196 254745 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 1945620187065 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14250999711 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4113159243816	88.6% Excellent	Read 169 Write 141 Mixed 145 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.19 69% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 114%
Asmedia ASMT1153e 320GB 34 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 298GB free Firmware: 0 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	53.5% Above average	Read 83.3 Write 103 Mixed 71.4 64% 86 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 0.52 4K Mixed 0.25 62% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 53.5% Great: 53%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 38.5 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 28.4 100% 35.2 GB/s	SC Read 23 SC Write 39.6 SC Mixed 32.8 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 50.3 80% 50.3 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

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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 $249Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	510x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	121x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	103x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	75x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $140Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $734

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $361	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16