Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	90.2% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.5% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '18 at 18:25
Run Duration	183 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	46%

PC Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$170 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Memory 97.2 1-Core 139 2-Core 278 96% 171 Pts	4-Core 442 8-Core 489 61% 465 Pts	64-Core 509 32% 509 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% Asus(1043 861E) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (25^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90.2% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 131 Parallax 108 96% 119 fps	MRender 87.9 Gravity 107 Splatting 93.5 79% 96.3 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 150GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 823 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 186 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 66 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3325953768	82.5% Excellent	Read 518 Write 418 Mixed 419 100% 452 MB/s	4K Read 31 4K Write 43.3 4K Mixed 25.9 103% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 120 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 50 54% 90.1 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$37 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 686GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 99 239609272 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 591 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3643201 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 814 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 187 (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 72 70 471531548 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5408 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 55834574876 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -79061757984426 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1718696600 (F2) Unknown 100 253 37856904980	95.1% Outstanding	Read 184 Write 148 Mixed 138 117% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.25 88% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 113%
TOSHIBA USB FLASH DRIVE 32GB 950 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 3GB free, PID 6545 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	22.6% Poor	Read 121 Write 11.9 Mixed 25.6 47% 52.8 MB/s	4K Read 10.4 4K Write 0.005 4K Mixed 0.005 39% 3.47 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 22.6% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 11,954 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 43 MC Mixed 31.2 106% 37.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.3 SC Write 44 SC Mixed 32.5 94% 32.9 GB/s	Latency 49.6 81% 49.6 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 107%

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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 $247Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,752x
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 $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	772x
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: $826

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 $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16