Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 89.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.1% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	2.5 Days
Run Date	Sep 20 '17 at 22:13
Run Duration	991 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.9% Excellent	Memory 92.6 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 92% 165 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 727 74% 598 Pts	64-Core 731 45% 731 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3304) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 111 Parallax 95.6 90% 105 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 97.4 Splatting 96.7 80% 97.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 223GB free Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1462 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 250 (64) Unknown 100 100 50368 (65) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 2 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 21 (B2) Unknown 100 100 1 (B4) Unknown 100 100 647 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 39 100 253403988007 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 76 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3 (F2) Unknown 100 100 3 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	71.7% Very good	Read 474 Write 265 Mixed 255 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 59.6 4K Mixed 11.6 94% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 302 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 11.8 65% 152 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 88%
Toshiba HDWD105 500GB-$49 9,420 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: MS1OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 69 (03) Spinup time 125 125 12897026231 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 268 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 108 108 37 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1452 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 269 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 269 (C2) HDA temperature 142 142 261994053674 (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	59.8% Above average	Read 90.1 Write 118 Mixed 112 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.17 87% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 104%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 500GB 1,344 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 19GB free, PID 0200 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile)	25.7% Poor	Read 57.3 Write 58.4 Mixed 34 62% 49.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.2 59% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 25.7% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.9% Good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 20 69% 24 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 25.6 SC Mixed 21 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 62.9 64% 62.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 104%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,688x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,435x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	612x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,144x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	862x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	339x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	240x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	761x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	323x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	157x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $693

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $275	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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