Asrock Z270 Taichi

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.4% 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	96.7% 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 (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z270 Taichi (all builds)
Memory	8.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170509
Uptime	12.3 Days
Run Date	Jun 06 '18 at 14:10
Run Duration	264 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (46^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Memory 82 1-Core 152 2-Core 294 95% 176 Pts	4-Core 493 8-Core 783 78% 638 Pts	64-Core 798 49% 798 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 120 Parallax 115 94% 117 fps	MRender 96.9 Gravity 104 Splatting 97.1 81% 99.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 178GB free Firmware: RVT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1391 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 118 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 65 45 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1114340001	74.8% Very good	Read 485 Write 271 Mixed 283 76% 346 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 46.2 4K Mixed 22.1 97% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 69.6 92% 171 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 90%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$130 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 111GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5188 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 747 (B1) Unknown 98 98 6 (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 64 45 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 36 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2751187191	70.7% Very good	Read 478 Write 270 Mixed 274 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 50.3 4K Mixed 15.1 87% 30.9 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 147 DQ Mixed 60.4 87% 165 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 114%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5798 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 970 (B1) Unknown 97 97 45 (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 62 46 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 106 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16920999807	96.7% Outstanding	Read 494 Write 405 Mixed 414 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 32.4 4K Write 67.7 4K Mixed 34 128% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 248 DQ Mixed 112 131% 229 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 506GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 63881440 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6851 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 37780547 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10119 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2069 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 51 198106808352 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 187 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 21 21 158537 (C2) HDA temperature 32 49 -140737488355296 (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 91998199484706 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15502347286 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22802517072	98.4% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 158 Mixed 159 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.25 84% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 348GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 63 102580716 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5571 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 12368210 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7222 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1191 (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 68 52 538312736 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5645 (C2) HDA temperature 32 14 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 102580716 (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 -126697240258922 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2222340796 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5216040658	84% Excellent	Read 148 Write 144 Mixed 130 106% 141 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.3 93% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 112%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 500GB 302 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 38GB free, PID a207 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	27.9% Poor	Read 61.7 Write 65.4 Mixed 58.8 80% 62 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.49 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 27.9% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 30,943 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	MC Read 34 MC Write 31.4 MC Mixed 26.7 88% 30.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.3 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 25.9 69% 24 GB/s	Latency 76.8 52% 76.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 103%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asrock Z270 Taichi

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	188x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	41x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	24x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	38x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	35x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	34x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	13x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $98Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	11x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	9x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	13x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	8x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $500

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16