Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (38th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 62 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 91.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	95.3% 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	108% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	29.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 01 '17 at 04:22
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	91.5% Outstanding	Memory 92.9 1-Core 125 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 742 76% 614 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.3% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 132 Parallax 113 100% 123 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 117 Splatting 96.7 86% 106 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 15GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8010 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2157 (B1) Unknown 97 97 55 (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 66 45 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 96 96 3730 (EB) Unknown 99 99 57 (F1) Unknown 99 99 38171504221	108% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 406 Mixed 415 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 45.3 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 35 167% 60.4 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 278 DQ Mixed 28 96% 210 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 134%
Seagate Constellation CS 3TB 667 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 367GB free Firmware: CN03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 126390240 (03) Spinup time 95 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4912 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 8619910037 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13376 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 356 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 37 2629058297887 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 181 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5209 (C2) HDA temperature 31 63 -140737488355297 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1	65% Good	Read 117 Write 109 Mixed 118 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4-3000C15-8GVRB F4-3200C16-8GTZR F4-3000C15-8GVRB F4-3200C16-8GTZR 32GB 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	82% Excellent	MC Read 29.3 MC Write 31.5 MC Mixed 25.5 82% 28.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 25.2 74% 25.9 GB/s	Latency 62.3 64% 62.3 ns

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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 $45Bench 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 $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