Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 122% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


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 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	134% 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	239% 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	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	28.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '17 at 23:28
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.5% Outstanding	Memory 90.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 266 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 725 75% 605 Pts	64-Core 731 45% 731 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85E4) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 188 Reflection 210 Parallax 204 153% 200 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 185 Splatting 132 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 346GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 1,614 Write 1,360 Mixed 1,453 329% 1,476 MB/s	4K Read 50.7 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 68.9 231% 81.5 MB/s	DQ Read 518 DQ Write 356 DQ Mixed 216 221% 363 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 353%
SanDisk Extreme 480GB-$300 1,286 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 141GB free Firmware: R201 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 102 5063810 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 5 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 46883863016072 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1851 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 70 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 60132687901 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 5063810 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 5 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 5063810 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 5063810 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7512 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9461 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9461 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13172	64.5% Good	Read 518 Write 193 Mixed 313 75% 341 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 19.9 4K Mixed 18.8 83% 23.5 MB/s	DQ Read 224 DQ Write 96.8 DQ Mixed 63.9 73% 128 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 66%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 111GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 104 100 104 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 651 (A6) Unknown 100 100 242 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 294 (A9) Unknown 100 100 11 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 277 (AE) Unknown 100 100 49 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 214748364837 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 9 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 25197 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7278 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7512	72% Very good	Read 495 Write 206 Mixed 287 72% 330 MB/s	4K Read 30 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 3.85 113% 50.7 MB/s	DQ Read 206 DQ Write 198 DQ Mixed 24.9 67% 143 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 78%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 816GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 109754824 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 170 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 7170233 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1008 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 203 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 68 61 555745312 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3857 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 77309411360 (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 -62496069122820 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8936001079 (F2) Unknown 100 253 34980749714	85.6% Excellent	Read 138 Write 159 Mixed 112 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 5.18 4K Mixed 0.51 182% 2.13 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2400C16 32GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.7% Excellent	MC Read 28.4 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 25.5 81% 28.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 34.4 SC Mixed 24.5 74% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 66 61% 66 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 81%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,351x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	889x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
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: $993

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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