Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.4% 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	64.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (35%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161108
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 03 '17 at 14:07
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	35%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 (91^st percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 140 2-Core 260 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 456 8-Core 727 73% 591 Pts	64-Core 741 46% 741 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 116 Parallax 98.7 89% 108 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 100 Splatting 100 81% 99.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB-$70 27,495 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 39465144 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 20151986557872 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1653 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 355 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 44 77312294941 (C2) HDA temperature 29 44 77312294941 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 39465144 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 39465144 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 39465144 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 11055 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7910 (F1) Unknown 0 0 7910 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9163	64.3% Good	Read 460 Write 242 Mixed 242 69% 315 MB/s	4K Read 12.4 4K Write 72.3 4K Mixed 15.5 77% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 81.2 90% 151 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 94%
Crucial BX100 120GB-$70 6,931 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 64GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th 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 100 100 553 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 641 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 102 (A3) Unknown 100 100 26 (A4) Unknown 100 100 47101 (A5) Unknown 100 100 128 (A6) Unknown 100 100 12 (A7) Unknown 100 100 44 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 71 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1785724 (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 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 97404 (F2) Unknown 100 100 98957 (F5) Unknown 100 100 188404	86% Excellent	Read 523 Write 184 Mixed 271 71% 326 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 34.9 145% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 261 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 66.1 91% 169 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 89%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 931GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 197 197 21765 (03) Spinup time 178 176 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3009 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9964 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2448 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 403 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2605 (C2) HDA temperature 109 92 38 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 27 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 5 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 189 50 2326	86.5% Excellent	Read 171 Write 131 Mixed 125 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.47 141% 1.26 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 707GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 227062888 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4652 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 232846716 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12485 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2164 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 3276858 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 51 622788641 (C2) HDA temperature 33 49 55834574881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 19 227062888 (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 34492882372018 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2265645981 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3238615323	61.6% Good	Read 109 Write 106 Mixed 108 81% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.53 111% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 4000 C18 2x8GB 1,410 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	88.5% Excellent	MC Read 32.9 MC Write 34.2 MC Mixed 26 89% 31 GB/s	SC Read 20.2 SC Write 33 SC Mixed 29 78% 27.4 GB/s	Latency 54.4 74% 54.4 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 130%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $439

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,908x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	766x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	367x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	907x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	783x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	782x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	268x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	268x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	196x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	355x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	289x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	138x

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Value: 70% - Very good

Total price: $1,206

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 $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