Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


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 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	76.6% 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.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	10.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 11 '17 at 16:49
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	6%

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 i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 92.8 1-Core 141 2-Core 277 94% 170 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 781 77% 630 Pts	64-Core 737 46% 737 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 92%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$25 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 57GB free Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 11851 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 92 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1005051052444 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 6 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 12 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 25 322122547240 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 588414648457 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1063 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3903 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1655 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4361 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	70% Good	Read 500 Write 310 Mixed 227 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 17.7 4K Write 79.6 4K Mixed 6.05 77% 34.5 MB/s	DQ Read 198 DQ Write 240 DQ Mixed 1.52 62% 147 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 86%
Kingston SM2280S3G2120G 120GB 4,240 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM01.R Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^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 0 (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 100 100 11614 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 81 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 196 (AD) Unknown 100 100 6619310 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C2) HDA temperature 60 37 270584578088 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 97 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5355 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 11022 (F2) Unknown 100 100 16983 (F4) Unknown 100 100 101 (F5) Unknown 100 100 174 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3405472	76.6% Very good	Read 523 Write 191 Mixed 290 73% 335 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 13.1 117% 48.4 MB/s	DQ Read 290 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 51.2 89% 177 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 89%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 931GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 138 138 94489280514 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 265 (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 59 59 18111 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 226 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 30 30 708869 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 219044446239 (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 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	66.2% Good	Read 116 Write 115 Mixed 111 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.19 68% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 66.2% Great: 75%
WD Re 2TB-$28 16,276 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 651GB free Firmware: 01.01D01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8416 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3854 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11491 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 266 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3735 (C2) HDA temperature 109 74 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	59.7% Above average	Read 108 Write 99.5 Mixed 98 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 2.71 4K Mixed 0.61 164% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 83%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 348GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 63 16133598 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2188139 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 54 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 60 673185829 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 18 (C2) HDA temperature 37 22 94489280549 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 16133598 (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 107477261615158 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1596395745 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1840918496	73.2% Very good	Read 139 Write 116 Mixed 102 89% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.87 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.31 91% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.4% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 21.2 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 22.9 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 62.6 64% 62.6 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 88%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,350x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $1,001

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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