Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 30% Sail boat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 24% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	33.9% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	85.3% 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.

Very high background CPU (45%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	12.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 10 '18 at 13:05
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	45%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 87 1-Core 118 2-Core 251 84% 152 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 337 57% 401 Pts	64-Core 436 27% 436 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Asus(1043 854D) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	33.9% Below average	Lighting 44.4 Reflection 43 Parallax 38.1 36% 41.8 fps	MRender 37.2 Gravity 38.2 Splatting 33.8 30% 36.4 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 1GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8320 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 390 (B1) Unknown 86 86 70 (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 59 44 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 84 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11007938115	85.3% Excellent	Read 486 Write 269 Mixed 274 76% 343 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 60.5 4K Mixed 27.8 126% 42.4 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 59.1 98% 194 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 138GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 63 48715277 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3294 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 85467050 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11403 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 752 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 67 50 605945889 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3507 (C2) HDA temperature 33 9 38654705697 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 48715277 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 104067057590549 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31344409735 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24264787142	81.1% Excellent	Read 139 Write 144 Mixed 126 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.25 76% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	38.2% Below average	MC Read 12.5 MC Write 13.3 MC Mixed 11.7 36% 12.5 GB/s	SC Read 11.8 SC Write 12.6 SC Mixed 11.8 34% 12.1 GB/s	Latency 70.4 57% 70.4 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 38.2% Great: 88%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	203x
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 $76Bench 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: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $694

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	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) $35	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