Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (49th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 51 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 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Boot Drive	94.5% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170914
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	May 23 '18 at 12:48
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing as expected (49^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$175 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 95.8 1-Core 148 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 568 8-Core 921 91% 745 Pts	64-Core 1,058 66% 1,058 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 170 Reflection 192 208% 181 fps
Poor: 109% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 112GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19778 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1190 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 51 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 145 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12073975112	108% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 408 Mixed 418 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 48.5 182% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 43.6 DQ Write 265 DQ Mixed 119 102% 143 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 134%
Samsung 860 EVO M.2 1TB 27,887 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: RVT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1919 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 102 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 59 51 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 41 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9984003630	94.5% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 332 Mixed 338 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 27.8 134% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 254 DQ Mixed 38.5 102% 218 MB/s
Poor: 81% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 133%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$49 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 131648064 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1643 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4119224 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13640 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1060 (B7) Unknown 84 84 16 (B8) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 97 15 4295033719 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 44 43589107747 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 180 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14714 (C2) HDA temperature 35 56 77309411363 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 906 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -32624571576561 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6200991059 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3472248219	72% Very good	Read 148 Write 103 Mixed 104 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.19 81% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 96%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 283GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 139 135 12033 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8729 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 58 58 31109 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1731 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1204 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 7525 (C2) HDA temperature 109 94 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 196 56 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	88.5% Excellent	Read 151 Write 157 Mixed 141 113% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 3.35 4K Mixed 0.25 119% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 100%
HDD 750GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 170GB free, PID 2551 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	21% Poor	Read 37.4 Write 40.5 Mixed 12.5 37% 30.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.33 86% 1 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 21% Great: 34%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB-$56 84,291 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	82.7% Excellent	MC Read 32.2 MC Write 29.3 MC Mixed 24.6 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 32.3 SC Mixed 27.2 75% 26.2 GB/s	Latency 54.5 73% 54.5 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 82.7% Great: 101%

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Gaming 111%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING - $210

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $175Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	7,211x
Core i5-8600KIntel $125Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	1,265x
Core i7-8700Intel $186Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	572x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,686x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,224x
RTX 3080Nvidia $879Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	657x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $84Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	541x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	503x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	437x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	566x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	516x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	474x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $1,009

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 $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	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