Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	61.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	4.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 04 '17 at 23:14
Run Duration	228 Seconds
Run User	NZL-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (77^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 146 2-Core 286 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 808 81% 659 Pts	64-Core 798 49% 798 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.7% 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 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.6% Good	Lighting 78.7 Reflection 74.2 Parallax 68.3 64% 73.7 fps	MRender 65.4 Gravity 73.8 Splatting 69 57% 69.4 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
St500lm012 HN-M500MBB 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 37GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 476 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 71 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 75 60 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 817204167	133% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 503 Mixed 507 114% 508 MB/s	4K Read 47.8 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 59.2 212% 75.6 MB/s	DQ Read 390 DQ Write 347 DQ Mixed 150 172% 296 MB/s
Poor: 102% ↑ This bench: 133% Great: 133%
Hitachi HDS721050CLA362 120GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 23GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 126168960193058 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2856 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2623 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 105 105 11181977 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2623 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 435219 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 55 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 435219 (F2) Unknown 100 100 543005 (F9) Unknown 100 100 14111	67.8% Good	Read 496 Write 135 Mixed 196 60% 276 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 14.3 113% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 44.6 66% 125 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 67.8% Great: 79%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 177 6108 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 279 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1013 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 142 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18251 (C2) HDA temperature 133 113 17 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	80.4% Excellent	Read 150 Write 130 Mixed 115 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.26 4K Mixed 0.2 90% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 96%
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 500GB-$30 168,449 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 446GB free Firmware: 2BA30010 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3573 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1863 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1189 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 20 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 796 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 4 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 64 (C2) HDA temperature 64 64 163209281552 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1528 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 20 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 20778	59.9% Above average	Read 102 Write 106 Mixed 103 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.39 102% 0.98 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 59.9% Great: 61%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$31 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 433GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 168 2558 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 494 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 320 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2993 (C2) HDA temperature 123 104 20 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	96.2% Outstanding	Read 194 Write 142 Mixed 146 120% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.28 106% 1.14 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 109%
Seagate Momentus Thin 5400.9 2.5" 500GB-$30 168,449 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 244GB free Firmware: 1002YAM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38534792 (03) Spinup time 99 99 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3050 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 59 38804959891 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7043 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2516 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 40 40 60 (BC) Unknown 100 100 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 82 52 4597940242 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 932 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 52 52 96499 (C2) HDA temperature 18 48 -140737488355310 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	47% Average	Read 91.7 Write 72.3 Mixed 89.4 64% 84.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 0.72 4K Mixed 0.15 45% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 61%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Apacer 78.BAGM6.C7W0B 2x4GB 25 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	72.3% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 20.2 72% 25.1 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 22.6 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 73%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,377x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	784x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,030x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	943x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	894x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	437x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	486x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	258x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	225x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $755

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16