Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 95.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.4% 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	246% 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 21:24
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing way above expectations (88^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 (99^th percentile)	95.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 137 2-Core 286 95% 173 Pts	4-Core 518 8-Core 775 80% 647 Pts	64-Core 784 48% 784 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.4% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 112 Parallax 96.1 85% 104 fps	MRender 98.2 Gravity 95 Splatting 99.5 80% 97.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 334GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	246% Outstanding	Read 2,002 Write 1,329 Mixed 1,365 347% 1,566 MB/s	4K Read 57.2 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 54.5 222% 78.3 MB/s	DQ Read 534 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 174 190% 327 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 246% Great: 254%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 169 6450 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 745 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 553 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 19 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1746 (C2) HDA temperature 118 111 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	96% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 164 Mixed 151 122% 162 MB/s	4K Read 0.94 4K Write 2.66 4K Mixed 0.29 120% 1.29 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 100%
Seagate Laptop SSHD 2.5" 1TB-$41 64,201 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 840GB free Firmware: SM28 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 112 99 48193736 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1211 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 8911247069 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6333 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 522 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 39 -3739746271 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5211 (C2) HDA temperature 33 61 73014444065 (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	62.8% Good	Read 106 Write 111 Mixed 104 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 0.59 191% 2.19 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 65%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$83 8,676 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	MC Read 33 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 23.8 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 32.6 SC Mixed 27.6 74% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 95%

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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	4,363x
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	1,029x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	940x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	436x
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 $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	483x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Total price: $966

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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