Asus STRIX H270I GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 55% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 88.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX H270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 16 '18 at 09:15
Run Duration	202 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing way above expectations (85^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Memory 91.8 1-Core 142 2-Core 269 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 781 75% 617 Pts	64-Core 782 48% 782 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85B6) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.1% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 65.8 62% 73.2 fps	MRender 71.4 Gravity 70.4 Splatting 72.3 58% 71.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 838GB free (System drive) Firmware: 02.01A02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2316 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 118 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 132 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 108 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 376 (C2) HDA temperature 109 106 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 96 (F1) Unknown 200 200 818043466 (F2) Unknown 200 200 467819035	108% Outstanding	Read 207 Write 172 Mixed 156 133% 178 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.34 121% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 109%
WD My Passport Essential USB 3.0 500GB 2,842 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 381GB free, PID 0730 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	30.2% Below average	Read 69 Write 70.1 Mixed 45.4 77% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.13 59% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 30.2% Great: 32%
SanDisk Ultra USB 3.0 32GB-$7 33,725 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 13GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	42.7% Average	Read 139 Write 67.5 Mixed 97.9 119% 101 MB/s	4K Read 4.73 4K Write 2.21 4K Mixed 1.5 144% 2.81 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 42.7% Great: 38%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	74.4% Very good	MC Read 28.6 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 21 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 24.2 67% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 64.3 62% 64.3 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 95%

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Gaming 65%

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Desktop 83%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 55%

Yacht

Motherboard: Asus STRIX H270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	25x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	22x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	18x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	18x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	16x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	14x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	7x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	6x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 76%, 105,447 samples	7x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	5x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	5x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $436

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