Asus PRIME Z270-K

Performance Results


Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.03% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	294% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-K (all builds)
Memory	10.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170607
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Jul 03 '17 at 16:29
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 150 2-Core 297 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 534 8-Core 833 84% 684 Pts	64-Core 831 51% 831 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 98.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT 5,568 User benchmarks, average bench 6% MSI(1462 1170) 512MB Ram: 512MB, Driver: 342.1 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	7.03% Terrible	Lighting 9.47 Reflection 9.15 Parallax 3.44 8% 7.35 fps	MRender 7.9 Gravity 7.2 Splatting 6.13 6% 7.08 fps
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 7.03% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 346GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	294% Outstanding	Read 2,909 Write 1,265 Mixed 1,396 407% 1,857 MB/s	4K Read 64.5 4K Write 165 4K Mixed 56.2 257% 95.1 MB/s	DQ Read 641 DQ Write 395 DQ Mixed 216 242% 418 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 294% Great: 254%
Intel 520 Series 180GB-$132 14,258 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 58GB free Firmware: 400i 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 0 0 76794016150946 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1192 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1069 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1069 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 336684 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 35 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 336684 (F2) Unknown 100 100 189197 (F9) Unknown 100 100 8308	78.1% Very good	Read 474 Write 180 Mixed 264 67% 306 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 18.3 133% 55.2 MB/s	DQ Read 234 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 65.6 92% 170 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 88%
Seagate ST3500641AS 500GB-$76 1,952 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 101GB free Firmware: 3.AAJ Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 99 75 17418194 (03) Spinup time 87 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 12134 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 88 60 761913192 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 24205 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3966 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 53 42 789905455 (C2) HDA temperature 47 58 38654705711 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 59 51 72259428 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	20.5% Poor	Read 34.4 Write 36.7 Mixed 34.9 27% 35.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.26 72% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 20.5% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3100 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	105% Outstanding	MC Read 38.7 MC Write 39.8 MC Mixed 32.5 106% 37 GB/s	SC Read 23.6 SC Write 43.1 SC Mixed 32.1 94% 32.9 GB/s	Latency 50 80% 50 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

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

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-K - $74

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	936x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	452x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	298x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	317x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	295x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	260x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	136x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	62x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $847

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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 $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