Asus PRIME Z270M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 90.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91.8% 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	65.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170324
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 06 '17 at 01:57
Run Duration	197 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (66^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 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.7% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 454 8-Core 761 74% 607 Pts	64-Core 750 46% 750 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.8% Outstanding	Lighting 118 Reflection 123 Parallax 105 96% 115 fps	MRender 101 Gravity 106 Splatting 101 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 146GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z331 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 12 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (A5) Unknown 100 100 4297195543 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 58 180388626469 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 30065098759 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 85 (EA) Unknown 100 100 220 (F1) Unknown 253 253 148 (F2) Unknown 253 253 100 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	65.9% Good	Read 506 Write 273 Mixed 225 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 23.5 4K Write 63.7 4K Mixed 4.7 75% 30.6 MB/s	DQ Read 153 DQ Write 217 DQ Mixed 7.19 55% 126 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 83GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205305034 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10642 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 170352734 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11162 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4180 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 25770196999 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 46 504823838 (C2) HDA temperature 30 54 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 44 19 205305034 (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 -49636937012317 (F1) Unknown 100 253 661558937 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3479209539	40.9% Average	Read 70.8 Write 71.7 Mixed 77.8 56% 73.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.3 76% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 68%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 0GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145817747 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11647 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96055922 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9481 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4177 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 85900656661 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 43 30586437658 (C2) HDA temperature 26 57 64424509466 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 30 21 145817747 (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 -14495514597397 (F1) Unknown 100 253 119967590 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1356792944	29.8% Poor	Read 63.8 Write 40.1 Mixed 54.8 40% 52.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 0.54 4K Mixed 0.22 49% 0.37 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 29.8% Great: 70%
Seagate Expansion 1TB 1,516 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 616GB free, PID 231a Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	54.8% Above average	Read 105 Write 95.3 Mixed 5.61 77% 68.5 MB/s	4K Read 1.26 4K Write 6.05 4K Mixed 0.45 226% 2.59 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 54.8% Great: 50%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 27.5 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 40.4 SC Mixed 29.9 89% 31 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 105%

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Desktop 89%

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Workstation 75%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	37x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	11x
Core i5-7400Intel $95Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	7x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	12x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	8x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	8x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	7x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	4x
SSDNow KC300 240GBKingston $81Bench 78%, 2,054 samples	4x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	6x
HyperX 2666 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 84%, 17,710 samples	4x
16GBFFFFBench 65%, 18 samples	3x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $679

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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