Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 91.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.7% 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	106% 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 (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '17 at 04:49
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing above expectations (76^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.4% Outstanding	Memory 92.7 1-Core 144 2-Core 278 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 771 77% 628 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 122 Parallax 102 93% 113 fps	MRender 96.8 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vector 150 120GB-$89 1,360 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 77GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (AB) Unknown 80 80 40989776 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 52 (F2) Unknown 100 100 25 (F9) Unknown 100 100 1823011	106% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 423 Mixed 454 103% 464 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 129 4K Mixed 31.7 150% 62.7 MB/s	DQ Read 300 DQ Write 346 DQ Mixed 85.7 130% 244 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 100%
Toshiba P300 2TB-$61 100,891 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: MX4OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 25769804076 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 10 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 154620330017 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	96.6% Outstanding	Read 188 Write 149 Mixed 171 128% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.14 81% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 108%

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 @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70.4% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 26.4 MC Mixed 20.5 70% 24.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 22.2 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 62.8 64% 62.8 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 103%

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Gaming 89%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,359x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,028x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	940x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	892x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $992

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 $178	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