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Asus PRIME Z270-A

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Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	100% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	73.4% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (32%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '18 at 07:43
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	32%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$120 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	Memory 82 1-Core 131 2-Core 256 86% 156 Pts	4-Core 395 8-Core 442 55% 418 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	100% Outstanding	Lighting 128 Reflection 138 Parallax 135 104% 134 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 128 Splatting 105 93% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 480GB-$130 62,883 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3534 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (A5) Unknown 100 100 23920919 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 29 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 388 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 25 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 61 261994053662 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 339304251471 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 960 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5731 (F1) Unknown 253 253 5069 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2458 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	73.4% Very good	Read 493 Write 309 Mixed 269 79% 357 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 35.6 4K Mixed 18.9 84% 27.2 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 163 DQ Mixed 45 80% 159 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$58 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 398GB free Firmware: CC96 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 68586464 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1361 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 51 60137467680 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11635 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 843 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 39 996937433116 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 760 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 32125 (C2) HDA temperature 28 61 60129542172 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 16 68586464 (C5) Current pending sector count 99 99 280 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 99 99 280 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 43744241912948 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2341486027 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3547866070	71.1% Very good	Read 119 Write 130 Mixed 120 92% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.05 4K Mixed 0.22 64% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 71.1% Great: 114%
Seagate ST3250824AS 250GB-$148 4,794 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 231GB free Firmware: 3.AAD Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 90 18719865 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4164 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 90393645603 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6969 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3041 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 52 521797663 (C2) HDA temperature 31 48 38654705695 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 54 48 210731743 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 199 1 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	36.8% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 64.5 Mixed 56.2 46% 61.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.39 83% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 37%
ST310005 24AS 1TB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 28% 931GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	45.1% Average	Read 112 Write 110 Mixed 92.4 133% 105 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.47 71% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$40 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	64.4% Good	MC Read 22.7 MC Write 25.1 MC Mixed 20.6 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 22.8 SC Mixed 20 55% 19.2 GB/s	Latency 76.9 52% 76.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 104%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $148Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,931x
Core i5-7600KIntel $120Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,510x
Core i7-6700KIntel $127Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	658x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $200Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,194x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	914x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	854x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	398x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	364x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $100Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	251x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	803x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	348x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	164x

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Value: 90% - Outstanding

Total price: $632

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