Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (32nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 68 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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	89.8% 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	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	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 (61%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	23.4 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	5120 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	2.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 21 '21 at 03:30
Run Duration	146 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	61%

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PC Performing below expectations (32^nd 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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 83.1 1-Core 106 2-Core 215 76% 135 Pts	4-Core 391 8-Core 532 58% 462 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia RTX 2060-$324 645,160 User benchmarks, average bench 90% Asus(1043 868E) CLim: 2160 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 461.09 Performing below potential (53^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 104 Parallax 102 94% 107 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 97.7 Splatting 87.2 82% 103 fps
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 97%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 407GB free Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 421 375 373 374 376 370 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Read 743 Write 696 Mixed 320 SusWrite 382 120% 535 MB/s	4K Read 26.5 4K Write 49 4K Mixed 22.7 95% 32.7 MB/s	DQ Read 204 DQ Write 47 DQ Mixed 68.7 65% 107 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 155%
Kingston A400 240GB-$28 424,288 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 152GB free Firmware: SBFKB1D2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 263 138 138 138 140 139 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	66.8% Good	Read 360 Write 373 Mixed 287 SusWrite 159 66% 295 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 59.1 4K Mixed 29 104% 37.2 MB/s	DQ Read 196 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 145 136% 207 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 100%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 642GB free (System drive) Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 96 93 103 103 108 112 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	Read 155 Write 146 Mixed 73.1 SusWrite 103 87% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.1 198% 1.43 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 7,409 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.3 MC Write 35.7 MC Mixed 26.4 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 25.5 SC Mixed 17.2 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 75.1 53% 75.1 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 111%

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

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,351x
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	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x

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	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 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: $993

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