Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 104% UFO	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 103%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	68.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	117% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 26 '17 at 14:16
Run Duration	356 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Memory 97.7 1-Core 156 2-Core 313 103% 189 Pts	4-Core 578 8-Core 862 90% 720 Pts	64-Core 857 53% 857 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6163) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2202 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	68.5% Good	Lighting 86.3 Reflection 85.8 Parallax 74.3 70% 82.1 fps	MRender 80.1 Gravity 78.2 Splatting 79.4 65% 79.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SSD 250GB 2,741 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 164GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 48 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 205 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 72 63 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 126 (F1) Unknown 99 99 447731989	117% Outstanding	Read 497 Write 490 Mixed 504 111% 497 MB/s	4K Read 37.4 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 42.7 171% 64 MB/s	DQ Read 363 DQ Write 337 DQ Mixed 134 160% 278 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 126%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 166 163 6691 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 203 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 40 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 180 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 306 (C2) HDA temperature 129 119 21 (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	91.6% Outstanding	Read 148 Write 171 Mixed 159 120% 159 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.73 4K Mixed 0.26 121% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 96%
Toshiba MQ01ABD050 500GB-$23 40,922 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 460GB free Firmware: AX00 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1521 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2838 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 940 (0A) Spinup retry count 155 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1134 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 6 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 364 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 5494 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 201864445973 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 100 100 83 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 177 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	62.2% Good	Read 112 Write 105 Mixed 102 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 62%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 15,101 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 178GB free, PID a200 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	31.1% Below average	Read 71.5 Write 72.1 Mixed 17.9 64% 53.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.21 63% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 31.1% Great: 44%
Verbatim STORE N GO 16GB 7,986 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 5GB free, PID 0302 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	4.45% Terrible	Read 16.4 Write 5 Mixed 5.86 9% 9.08 MB/s	4K Read 4.03 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.02 16% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.45% Great: 9%

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 (85^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38.8 MC Write 40 MC Mixed 29.1 103% 36 GB/s	SC Read 23.1 SC Write 42.4 SC Mixed 31.2 92% 32.2 GB/s	Latency 47.4 84% 47.4 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 103% 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	3,698x
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	766x
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 $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