Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 100% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	122% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	118% 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	8.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 24 '17 at 03:54
Run Duration	236 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (63^rd 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 (97^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.8 1-Core 143 2-Core 278 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 772 77% 626 Pts	64-Core 763 47% 763 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6593) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (47^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	122% Outstanding	Lighting 169 Reflection 199 Parallax 179 138% 182 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 160 Splatting 120 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 56GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4213 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 31 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 63 43 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 20 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3273143876	121% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 412 Mixed 424 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 48.3 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 52 197% 69.4 MB/s	DQ Read 381 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 129 152% 264 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 42GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17457 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 435 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 65 48 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 97 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8728961360	120% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 412 Mixed 423 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 51.4 193% 67.9 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 120 146% 259 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 22341 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 534 (B1) Unknown 89 89 228 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 47 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 141 (F1) Unknown 99 99 95286833338	118% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 404 Mixed 414 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 47.2 4K Write 98.5 4K Mixed 51.9 190% 65.9 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 110 141% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 37GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 36496 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1117 (B1) Unknown 84 84 561 (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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 160 (F1) Unknown 99 99 50183762338	99.4% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 363 Mixed 375 93% 418 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 25.1 150% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 65.7 109% 215 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 99.4% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 116GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 99 0 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4238 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 73215607227 (09) Power-on hours count 22 22 68495 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1249 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 458821 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 52 5069340713 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 290 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4529 (C2) HDA temperature 41 48 -140737488355287 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 9 4 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -101185134491820 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1923977309 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3766780285	53.7% Above average	Read 85.7 Write 102 Mixed 95.9 71% 94.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 0.91 4K Mixed 0.42 79% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 69%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 39GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (36^th percentile)	26.3% Poor	Read 57.4 Write 60.4 Mixed 48.8 71% 55.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.19 60% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 26.3% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	90% Outstanding	MC Read 34.4 MC Write 33.7 MC Mixed 26.8 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 33.8 SC Mixed 30.6 77% 27 GB/s	Latency 50.9 79% 50.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 90% Great: 104%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,691x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,437x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	612x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,144x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	340x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	763x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	323x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	159x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $684

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