Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	63.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	113% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '18 at 13:04
Run Duration	243 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.6% Very good	Memory 89.7 1-Core 103 2-Core 194 75% 129 Pts	4-Core 378 8-Core 384 51% 381 Pts	64-Core 396 24% 396 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 77.6% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Zotac(19DA 1438) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2252 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	63.4% Good	Lighting 76.5 Reflection 75.3 Parallax 64.8 62% 72.2 fps	MRender 81.5 Gravity 77.6 Splatting 80.8 66% 80 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Force MP500 NVMe PCIe M.2 120GB-$69 11,475 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 56GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM05.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 1,370 Write 169 Mixed 307 131% 615 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 67.8 4K Mixed 39.1 131% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 200 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 79.7 82% 136 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 185%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 231GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 93 (03) Spinup time 159 158 5033 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6886 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17349 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4547 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 121 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6884 (C2) HDA temperature 120 80 27 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	55.9% Above average	Read 108 Write 87 Mixed 90.2 71% 95 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.4 100% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 69%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 168GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 5 (03) Spinup time 115 106 7225 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11848 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17001 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4503 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 134 134 198785 (C2) HDA temperature 124 85 23 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 89 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 72 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 82	46.4% Average	Read 87 Write 74.8 Mixed 87.4 63% 83.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.75 4K Mixed 0.13 49% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 46.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-043.A00G 2x8GB 519 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	72.9% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 21.8 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 27.2 SC Mixed 21.7 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 77%

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Gaming 71%

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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 $248Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,753x
Core i5-7600KIntel $170Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,455x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	627x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,159x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	876x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	822x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	375x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	348x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	773x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	330x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	161x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $824

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16