Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 95.8%, 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	96.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	6.8 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '18 at 14:58
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (64^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 146 2-Core 282 98% 175 Pts	4-Core 510 8-Core 739 78% 624 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	83.4% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 114 Parallax 103 87% 108 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 100 Splatting 87.4 76% 94 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron XT 240GB-$170 1,466 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC01.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd 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 7225 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2472 (A2) Unknown 100 100 574 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6946994 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1571 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1571 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (F1) Unknown 100 100 17243 (F2) Unknown 100 100 14351	96.3% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 450 Mixed 505 109% 486 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 96.4 4K Mixed 16.1 120% 48.1 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 306 DQ Mixed 16.6 97% 222 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 115%
ST3500413AS 240GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 17GB free Firmware: SAFC02.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (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 1311 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 187 (A2) Unknown 100 100 407 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 196624 (AE) Unknown 100 100 47 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 47 (C2) HDA temperature 97 97 128850984990 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 882 (F2) Unknown 100 100 766	85.9% Excellent	Read 515 Write 353 Mixed 410 95% 426 MB/s	4K Read 26.4 4K Write 90.6 4K Mixed 13.9 106% 43.6 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 59.8 113% 223 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 87GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 65240946 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9488 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 356470843 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18544 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6316 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BC) Unknown 100 98 34361574007 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 53 571801634 (C2) HDA temperature 34 47 42949672994 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 22 65240946 (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 532575980373 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1416490492 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2756639558	46.1% Average	Read 83.5 Write 77.2 Mixed 71.9 58% 77.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.38 85% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$24 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 66GB free Firmware: KC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 109518368 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2603 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 4410342086 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6520 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1026 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 13 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 54 555024417 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 42949672993 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 48 39 109518368 (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 38302518352685 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2952881466 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4288066743	45.8% Average	Read 83.2 Write 76.4 Mixed 72.4 58% 77.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.42 82% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 88%
WDC WD75 00BPVX-60JC3T0 750GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 42GB free, PID 0621 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	26.7% Poor	Read 56.6 Write 59.7 Mixed 49.5 71% 55.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.23 70% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 26.7% Great: 27%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 1,583 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	MC Read 38 MC Write 37.7 MC Mixed 28.3 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.4 SC Write 37.9 SC Mixed 31.1 86% 30.1 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 109%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270H GAMING - $247

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	1,576x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	575x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	313x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	444x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	419x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	399x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	134x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	132x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	90x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	231x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	142x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	101x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $736

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16