Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	51.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	230% 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 04 '18 at 09:16
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 (98^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 144 2-Core 282 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 796 79% 647 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% Asus(1043 8508) CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	51.4% Above average	Lighting 63.6 Reflection 68.1 Parallax 61.8 52% 64.5 fps	MRender 73.3 Gravity 60.3 Splatting 55 51% 62.9 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 51.4% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 347GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	230% Outstanding	Read 2,475 Write 1,244 Mixed 1,368 373% 1,696 MB/s	4K Read 38.3 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 36.2 163% 61.9 MB/s	DQ Read 51 DQ Write 220 DQ Mixed 28.3 53% 99.8 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 230% Great: 254%
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS1754D117-820 240GB 5,703 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 152GB free Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 592 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 95 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 15 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 12980 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 103 (E7) Temperature 100 100 40 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1663 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3197	84.6% Excellent	Read 414 Write 280 Mixed 339 76% 344 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 28.3 130% 55.4 MB/s	DQ Read 260 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 65 105% 201 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 87%
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 121GB free Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2230 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 97 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 65 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 27491 (A5) Unknown 100 100 73 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 25 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 539560 (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 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 305606 (F2) Unknown 100 100 495898 (F5) Unknown 100 100 439856	101% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 419 Mixed 466 104% 465 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 35.5 139% 56.4 MB/s	DQ Read 270 DQ Write 292 DQ Mixed 71.9 112% 211 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 108%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 967GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 1 (03) Spinup time 173 163 6308 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 257 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 20597 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 71 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 162 162 116701 (C2) HDA temperature 110 100 40 (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	51.8% Above average	Read 102 Write 78.1 Mixed 86.3 67% 88.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.12 78% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 51.8% Great: 67%
WD Blue 1TB (2010)-$39 55,121 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 586GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 177 3850 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 311 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 28391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 273 (C2) HDA temperature 107 98 40 (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 3	62% Good	Read 104 Write 112 Mixed 106 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.41 118% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62% Great: 74%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2016)-$114 34,353 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 352GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 104878818 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 35 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 205541772 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -4608499900875 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 34 (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 65 57 589496355 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 471 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 21 21 158986 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 111669149731 (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 109753594283818 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24033859555 (F2) Unknown 100 253 13017009122	63.2% Good	Read 117 Write 103 Mixed 119 86% 113 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.22 79% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 63.2% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 39.3 MC Write 39.6 MC Mixed 28.8 103% 35.9 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 33.1 91% 32 GB/s	Latency 48.2 83% 48.2 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,697x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,438x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	613x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	341x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	242x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	765x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	160x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $659

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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