Asrock Z270 Gaming K4

Performance Results


Gaming 38% Jet ski	Desktop 103% UFO	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (85th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 15 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 96.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	29.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	293% 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.

High background CPU (29%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z270 Gaming K4 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161205
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 05 '17 at 22:52
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	29%

PC Performing above expectations (85^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	96.6% Outstanding	Memory 97.3 1-Core 144 2-Core 274 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 516 8-Core 799 81% 658 Pts	64-Core 794 49% 794 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 660-Ti-$362 42,960 User benchmarks, average bench 26% Asus(1043 841F) 2GB CLim: 1254 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	29.5% Poor	Lighting 36 Reflection 34.2 Parallax 43.2 29% 37.8 fps	MRender 40.9 Gravity 42.5 Splatting 28.9 30% 37.4 fps
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 29.5% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZVPV256HDGL-000H1 256GB 3,288 User benchmarks, average bench 192% 223GB free Firmware: BXW73H0Q Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 2,049 Write 1,178 Mixed 1,380 339% 1,536 MB/s	4K Read 49.7 4K Write 149 4K Mixed 48.5 216% 82.3 MB/s	DQ Read 556 DQ Write 374 DQ Mixed 183 212% 371 MB/s
Poor: 124% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 237%
Samsung SM961 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 21,747 User benchmarks, average bench 219% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXZ7300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	293% Outstanding	Read 2,719 Write 1,430 Mixed 1,705 430% 1,951 MB/s	4K Read 49.1 4K Write 151 4K Mixed 67.6 241% 89.1 MB/s	DQ Read 566 DQ Write 451 DQ Mixed 232 249% 416 MB/s
Poor: 134% ↑ This bench: 293% Great: 292%
Sandisk SD7SB2Q512G 512GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 120GB free Firmware: X2180000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 1725 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 170 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 53 (A8) Unknown 100 100 14 (A9) Unknown 100 100 955 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 17 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 40 171799805985 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 792 (F1) Unknown 253 253 636 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1978 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	98.6% Outstanding	Read 468 Write 436 Mixed 422 99% 442 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 93.3 4K Mixed 23.5 131% 50.3 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 314 DQ Mixed 45.7 113% 237 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 104%
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 120GB 4,046 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 112GB free Firmware: 1.37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2767173 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 45835890986726 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 680 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 98 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 2767173 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2048 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1984 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1984 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4416	47.8% Average	Read 195 Write 101 Mixed 115 30% 137 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 80.8 4K Mixed 14.4 100% 40.3 MB/s	DQ Read 115 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 33.3 47% 86.4 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 55%
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 115GB 2,637 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 107GB free Firmware: 1.37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 100 207852230 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -94686849003091 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 879 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 94 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 118 100 207852230 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9856 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7104 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7104 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12032	38.3% Below average	Read 234 Write 65.9 Mixed 92.4 28% 131 MB/s	4K Read 18.3 4K Write 61.2 4K Mixed 11.6 75% 30.3 MB/s	DQ Read 77.1 DQ Write 66.7 DQ Mixed 22.3 30% 55.4 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 49%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 2144 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3893 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 56 60315526622 (09) Power-on hours count 38 38 54382 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 780 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538443808 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3957 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 60129542176 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 3 2144 (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 -3040836816809 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4235581961 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3622774130	74.7% Very good	Read 135 Write 126 Mixed 93.6 88% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.53 100% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 74.7% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$57 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 40.9 MC Mixed 27.7 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 36.9 SC Mixed 31.9 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 49 82% 49 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 107%

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Gaming 72%

Battleship

Desktop 93%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 62%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z270 Gaming K4

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	249x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	73x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	55x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	56x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	50x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	49x

SSD
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	29x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	19x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $158Bench 297%, 331,647 samples	15x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	24x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	16x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	11x

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Value: 109% - Outstanding

Total price: $510

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 $179	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