Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.9% 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	73.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '17 at 15:20
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 89.9 1-Core 145 2-Core 270 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 503 8-Core 788 80% 646 Pts	64-Core 809 50% 809 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.7% 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: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.9% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 122 Parallax 100 96% 113 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 105 Splatting 104 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin Reactor 1TB-$50 9,565 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 724GB free Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 360 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 293 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 127 (A3) Unknown 100 100 72 (A4) Unknown 100 100 23090 (A5) Unknown 100 100 40 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 11 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 28029 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 219317 (F2) Unknown 100 100 261476 (F5) Unknown 100 100 369440	104% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 428 Mixed 459 104% 467 MB/s	4K Read 28.6 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 37.3 146% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 281 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 71.9 110% 209 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 105%
WD Blue 250GB-$81 26,761 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41100WD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 31 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 18 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4784183 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2 (A9) Unknown 100 100 169 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 8 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 42 180390002718 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 64425426959 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 293 (EA) Unknown 100 100 407 (F1) Unknown 253 253 384 (F2) Unknown 253 253 244 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.8% Very good	Read 470 Write 253 Mixed 211 68% 311 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 42.7 4K Mixed 20.5 91% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 192 DQ Mixed 44.2 95% 198 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.4% Good	MC Read 24.7 MC Write 25.4 MC Mixed 21 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 22.1 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 67.4 59% 67.4 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 85%

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

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $685

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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