Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (28th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 72 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	115% 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	114% 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.

Very high background CPU (59%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	7.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '18 at 19:16
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	59%

PC Performing below expectations (28^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-$241 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	74.7% Very good	Memory 91.3 1-Core 99.9 2-Core 185 74% 125 Pts	4-Core 313 8-Core 702 59% 508 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	115% Outstanding	Lighting 156 Reflection 177 Parallax 178 127% 170 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 160 Splatting 112 104% 129 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 325GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20236 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 262 (B1) Unknown 97 97 51 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 44 41 56 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 61329490406	98.6% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 413 Mixed 419 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 45.4 4K Write 98.7 4K Mixed 28.2 157% 57.5 MB/s	DQ Read 45.3 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 28.1 58% 111 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 24GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23546 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 328 (B1) Unknown 85 85 310 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 40 37 60 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 67 (F1) Unknown 99 99 104615818473	114% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 410 Mixed 416 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 99.2 4K Mixed 48.1 181% 63.9 MB/s	DQ Read 342 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 112 133% 234 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 233GB free Firmware: 15.01H15 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 13 (03) Spinup time 177 175 2141 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8850 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 53 53 34409 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 614 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 126 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8723 (C2) HDA temperature 92 85 51 (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	81.8% Excellent	Read 136 Write 149 Mixed 127 103% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.35 105% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 109%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 228GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 73 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896829617 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1029 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 120 120 32 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 39059 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 864 (C0) Power-off retract count 74 74 32252 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 74 74 32252 (C2) HDA temperature 115 115 257699282996 (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	68.3% Good	Read 101 Write 137 Mixed 125 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.16 60% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$60 17,279 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	58.9% Above average	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 21 MC Mixed 19.6 61% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 12.7 39% 13.6 GB/s	Latency 65.3 61% 65.3 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 58.9% Great: 111%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 - $129

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	916x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	323x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	182x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	267x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	202x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	48x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	93x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	56x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	35x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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 $40	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