Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Boot Drive	115% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 14 '18 at 21:39
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (79^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-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 95.3 1-Core 148 2-Core 296 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 566 8-Core 844 88% 705 Pts	64-Core 842 52% 842 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 92%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 690 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 231 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 64 51 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 91 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3572633837	115% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 414 Mixed 412 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 44.6 4K Write 95 4K Mixed 48.1 180% 62.6 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 116 140% 246 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 38942744 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 -75737453289677 (0C) Power cycle count 90 90 10909 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 203 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 59 47248506910 (C2) HDA temperature 30 59 47248506910 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 38942744 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 38942744 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 38942744 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 64424509441 (E9) Unknown 0 0 33113 (EA) Unknown 0 0 23361 (F1) Unknown 0 0 23361 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15759 (F4) Unknown 96 96 9306237	81% Excellent	Read 506 Write 244 Mixed 303 77% 351 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 18 124% 50.3 MB/s	DQ Read 213 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 60.3 92% 172 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 85%
Seagate ST3000DM003-1F216N 3TB 4,050 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 56395568 (03) Spinup time 93 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8339 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10006052 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13678 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 300 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 90195689493 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 45 639500319 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28913 (C2) HDA temperature 31 55 51539607583 (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 -90902982818675 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14286952552 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12458804236	88.6% Excellent	Read 174 Write 135 Mixed 137 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.17 71% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$34 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 554GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 135664103 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 467 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3583797 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 699 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 245 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 56 689766431 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 505 (C2) HDA temperature 31 12 51539607583 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 5 1 135664103 (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 -82068235091287 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2157029462 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1876416708	88.7% Excellent	Read 155 Write 154 Mixed 116 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.95 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.3 104% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GF2666C16K4 2x8GB 1,887 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	85.2% Excellent	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 32.4 MC Mixed 24 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 32.8 SC Mixed 27.4 77% 26.8 GB/s	Latency 56.2 71% 56.2 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 94%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,347x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	782x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,026x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	434x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	226x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	481x
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: $1,001

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	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) $34	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