Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 80% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	66.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	128% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '18 at 13:31
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^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 (98^th percentile)	73% Very good	Memory 84 1-Core 95.5 2-Core 191 71% 124 Pts	4-Core 353 8-Core 389 49% 371 Pts	64-Core 387 24% 387 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 73% 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)	66.3% Good	Lighting 82.1 Reflection 84 Parallax 80.6 67% 82.2 fps	MRender 79.6 Gravity 77.2 Splatting 80.6 65% 79.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.3% 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% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: E7FM05.0 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile)	128% Outstanding	Read 1,291 Write 600 Mixed 817 199% 903 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 56.1 4K Mixed 31.7 106% 37.1 MB/s	DQ Read 180 DQ Write 115 DQ Mixed 75.3 76% 123 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 128% 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 (77^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 6887 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 17350 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4548 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 122 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6885 (C2) HDA temperature 117 80 30 (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	57.1% Above average	Read 104 Write 94.7 Mixed 90.4 72% 96.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.93 4K Mixed 0.34 100% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 57.1% 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 117 106 7133 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11849 (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 4504 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 102 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 134 134 198794 (C2) HDA temperature 119 85 28 (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	45.5% Average	Read 89.5 Write 69 Mixed 89.8 63% 82.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.19 70% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 45.5% 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 above expectations (79^th percentile)	71.8% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 29.1 MC Mixed 21.7 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.4 SC Write 25.8 SC Mixed 20.5 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 73.5 54% 73.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 71.8% 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