Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 90.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83% 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	79.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	19.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	2.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 03 '18 at 16:22
Run Duration	355 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing as expected (57^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 90.4 1-Core 142 2-Core 271 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 487 8-Core 768 77% 627 Pts	64-Core 769 48% 769 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85F1) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2802 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83% Excellent	Lighting 94.5 Reflection 112 Parallax 91.3 77% 99.4 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 97.4 Splatting 123 94% 115 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Ultimate SU800 128GB-$30 32,167 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0125A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1642 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 96 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 35 (A3) Unknown 100 100 9 (A4) Unknown 100 100 35074 (A5) Unknown 100 100 120 (A6) Unknown 100 100 20 (A7) Unknown 100 100 70 (94) Unknown 100 100 160196 (95) Unknown 100 100 4732 (96) Unknown 100 100 4539 (97) Unknown 100 100 4711 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1500 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B1) Unknown 100 100 92 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 51 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 52 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 365168 (E8) Unknown 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 365168 (F2) Unknown 100 100 88778 (F5) Unknown 100 100 280592	79.4% Very good	Read 509 Write 307 Mixed 314 83% 377 MB/s	4K Read 31.4 4K Write 72.7 4K Mixed 20.5 112% 41.6 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 14.2 53% 114 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 107%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 737GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 171 2200 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2018 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 13823 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1052 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 147 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1976 (C2) HDA temperature 110 84 33 (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	84% Excellent	Read 154 Write 139 Mixed 137 108% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.31 106% 1.08 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 109%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 593GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 21504920 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 153 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21091272 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5998 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 89 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 66 49 857473058 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5834 (C2) HDA temperature 34 51 90194313250 (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 27689654162873 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15436746856 (F2) Unknown 100 253 120683378613	73.8% Very good	Read 105 Write 151 Mixed 123 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 5.25 4K Mixed 0.79 218% 2.27 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 110%
Seagate ST1500DM003-9YN16G 1.5TB 5,186 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 397GB free Firmware: HP16 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 197292656 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4825 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 199758678 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 15796 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4139 (B4) Unknown 100 100 23095079 (B7) Unknown 9 9 91 (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 68 46 739901472 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 130 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 50 50 101999 (C2) HDA temperature 32 54 81604378656 (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
Poor: 44% Great: 103%
Chipsbnk UDisk 4GB 116 User benchmarks, average bench 4% 4GB free, PID 1234 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	5.66% Terrible	Read 17 Write 5.24 Mixed 7.1 10% 9.77 MB/s	4K Read 8.61 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.009 32% 2.87 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 5.66% Great: 6%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB-$113 87,239 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69% Good	MC Read 22.3 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 22.5 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 23.6 SC Mixed 23.8 61% 21.3 GB/s	Latency 66.6 60% 66.6 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 120%

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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 $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,375x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	784x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,030x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	942x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	894x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 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 $48Bench 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	224x

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Value: 88% - Excellent

Total price: $812

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16