PC ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 107% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 104%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	87.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

System	PC ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING (all builds)
Motherboard	ASUSTeK ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170831
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Dec 08 '17 at 00:19
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	11%

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PC Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 149 2-Core 296 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 594 8-Core 964 95% 779 Pts	64-Core 1,227 76% 1,227 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 144 Reflection 154 Parallax 134 118% 144 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 137 Splatting 111 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SSD PLUS 480GB 5,109 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 240GB free Firmware: Z31000RL 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 100 100 7362 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1024 (A5) Unknown 100 100 68751851946 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 28 (A8) Unknown 100 100 28 (A9) Unknown 100 100 456 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 14 (AE) Unknown 100 100 111 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 65 279173857309 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1189739495936 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6788 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8731 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7620 (F2) Unknown 253 253 16298 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	100% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 423 Mixed 357 95% 428 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 111 4K Mixed 26.3 142% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 357 DQ Write 211 DQ Mixed 55 102% 208 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 108%
Crucial M500 240GB-$54 31,779 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 153GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 16902 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2506 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 99 99 55 (AE) Unknown 100 100 227 (B4) Unknown 0 0 4066 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 54 201862807581 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 99 99 1 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 16397061435 (F7) Unknown 100 100 352688010 (F8) Unknown 100 100 342682222	89.4% Excellent	Read 496 Write 262 Mixed 344 81% 368 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 29.2 138% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 299 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 50.7 100% 202 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 91%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 100GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16787 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2270 (B1) Unknown 90 90 113 (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 69 57 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 93 93 6880 (EB) Unknown 99 99 216 (F1) Unknown 99 99 45149716647	87.7% Excellent	Read 498 Write 347 Mixed 352 88% 399 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 72.2 4K Mixed 14.1 123% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 27.7 85% 187 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 118%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 812GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 206774376 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 61 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5668936 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 448 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 62 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 72 62 521666588 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 90 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 64424509468 (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 -102361955564954 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9922173875 (F2) Unknown 100 253 52632982745	73.5% Very good	Read 121 Write 134 Mixed 101 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 4.57 4K Mixed 0.51 159% 1.83 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 110%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 231GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 183716664 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 7 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 400894 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 30 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 68 538312731 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 50 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 77309411355 (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 -91469918502879 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1732930221 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4569572422	69.3% Good	Read 99.2 Write 141 Mixed 119 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.92 238% 2.38 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GD3200C16K4 2x8GB 9,947 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 36.8 MC Mixed 27.1 97% 34 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 36.9 SC Mixed 31.8 87% 30.4 GB/s	Latency 49.4 81% 49.4 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 110%

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System: PC ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	39x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	7x
Core i7-9700KIntel $252Bench 97%, 550,833 samples	2x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	24x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia $210Bench 115%, 663,603 samples	5x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	4x

SSD
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	5x
Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)WD $154Bench 131%, 14,088 samples	4x
Blue 3D SATA M.2 250GBWD $55Bench 85%, 9,409 samples	4x

RAM
CM4X8GD3200C16K4 2x8GBCorsairBench 89%, 9,947 samples	7x
CM4X8GD3000C16K4 2x8GBCorsairBench 83%, 669 samples	5x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	4x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $766

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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