Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 69% Battle cruiser	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (91st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 9 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 98.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	161% 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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170707
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '18 at 08:28
Run Duration	161 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 150 2-Core 299 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 585 8-Core 582 78% 584 Pts	64-Core 588 36% 588 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% PowerColor(148C 2357) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1100 MHz, MLim: 1525 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 18.6.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.7% Good	Lighting 78.7 Reflection 66.2 Parallax 99.9 64% 81.6 fps	MRender 65.9 Gravity 62.9 Splatting 84.9 60% 71.2 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WDC WD10EZRX-00D8PB0 120GB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 91GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10808 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2680 (B1) Unknown 87 87 148 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 70 48 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 608 (F1) Unknown 99 99 41668449760	116% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 437 Mixed 491 107% 480 MB/s	4K Read 46.9 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 35.9 181% 67.9 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 92.4 138% 260 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 116%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	161% Outstanding	Read 1,403 Write 557 Mixed 800 202% 920 MB/s	4K Read 35.4 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 47.1 191% 75.9 MB/s	DQ Read 121 DQ Write 471 DQ Mixed 89.3 128% 227 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 161% Great: 157%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 421GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 226849340 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 71 71 29713 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 1322912 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2785 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1148 (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 75 48 420741145 (C2) HDA temperature 25 52 77309411353 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 51 226849340 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	60% Above average	Read 99.5 Write 109 Mixed 94.7 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.45 104% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 60% Great: 60%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$64 143,477 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 311GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 172 4158 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3434 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10563 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2636 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 174 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 30 30 510332 (C2) HDA temperature 121 103 26 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	66.2% Good	Read 117 Write 114 Mixed 110 85% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.24 92% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 38.6 MC Write 41.5 MC Mixed 34.5 109% 38.2 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 32 94% 32.7 GB/s	Latency 52.2 77% 52.2 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 105%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	118x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	99x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $726

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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