Asus PRIME Z270-K

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 96.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	80.1% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-K (all builds)
Memory	13.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 17 '18 at 21:27
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$169 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 146 2-Core 293 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 556 8-Core 573 75% 564 Pts	64-Core 566 35% 566 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 330F) CLim: 2164 MHz, MLim: 2087 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 159 Parallax 146 118% 150 fps	MRender 105 Gravity 139 Splatting 117 99% 120 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 231GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3272 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 916 (B1) Unknown 99 99 12 (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 57 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 30 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7148767984	111% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 407 Mixed 420 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 44.6 170% 62.5 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 119 142% 249 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 124%
OCZ ARC 100 120GB-$82 4,735 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 110GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6392 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1389 (AB) Unknown 100 100 40825936 (AE) Unknown 100 100 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 65 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 98 98 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2718 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2937 (F9) Unknown 100 100 117513827	92.2% Outstanding	Read 449 Write 370 Mixed 407 91% 409 MB/s	4K Read 23.1 4K Write 124 4K Mixed 21 128% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 307 DQ Write 340 DQ Mixed 64.9 120% 237 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 98%
OCZ Vertex 4 128GB-$215 19,372 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 6 0 6 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 7580 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2571 (E8) Unknown 100 100 31208546359 (E9) Unknown 96 0 96	80.1% Excellent	Read 420 Write 374 Mixed 392 88% 396 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 18.4 127% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 24.8 DQ Write 136 DQ Mixed 16 31% 59 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 104%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 928GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 12 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 68 9320 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4937 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5603 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2514 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 52 206159282206 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 3 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 39507	77.3% Very good	Read 119 Write 150 Mixed 139 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 3.24 4K Mixed 0.59 153% 1.49 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 17,029 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3111 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	98.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.8 MC Write 39.1 MC Mixed 29 99% 34.6 GB/s	SC Read 22.2 SC Write 40.3 SC Mixed 30.4 88% 31 GB/s	Latency 51.1 78% 51.1 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 98.7% Great: 108%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-K - $74

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $235Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	943x
Core i5-7600KIntel $169Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	453x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	319x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	295x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	262x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $86Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	69x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	54x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	136x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	63x

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Value: 92% - Outstanding

Total price: $652

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i3-12100F $80	Nvidia RTX 4070 $542	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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