Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	259% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	55.2 GB free of 64 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 21:24
Run Duration	262 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	46%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^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 above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 95.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 248 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 663 67% 544 Pts	64-Core 768 48% 768 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85A4) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 2007 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.7% Good	Lighting 77.8 Reflection 75.8 Parallax 67.4 63% 73.7 fps	MRender 71.2 Gravity 71.4 Splatting 70.7 58% 71.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 465GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	259% Outstanding	Read 2,050 Write 1,450 Mixed 1,228 348% 1,576 MB/s	4K Read 55 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 57.8 225% 80.4 MB/s	DQ Read 531 DQ Write 374 DQ Mixed 199 217% 368 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 259% Great: 302%
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 372GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 30758 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 65 (B1) Unknown 92 92 86 (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 77 49 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1292955862612	98.9% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 352 Mixed 358 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 44.8 4K Write 78.7 4K Mixed 30.6 149% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 103 127% 228 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 98.9% Great: 126%
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 223GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 103692677 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 64 64 -127483219247659 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 51 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 218 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 160 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 103692677 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 103692677 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 103692677 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 26834 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15663 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15663 (F2) Unknown 0 0 34728	85% Excellent	Read 508 Write 251 Mixed 323 79% 360 MB/s	4K Read 32.6 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 22.6 137% 55.1 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 56.3 86% 161 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 91%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 217GB free Firmware: EXT0BB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17946 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 331 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 75 45 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2939822899	96.5% Outstanding	Read 508 Write 351 Mixed 353 90% 404 MB/s	4K Read 44.4 4K Write 76.2 4K Mixed 27 142% 49.2 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 226 DQ Mixed 82.1 117% 219 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 118%
Seagate ST8000DM005-2EH1 8TB 112 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 3.5TB free Firmware: DN03 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 82 64 171108479 (03) Spinup time 84 84 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 6072 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 184364626 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 17480516900796 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 58 588251166 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 696 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15102 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 68719476766 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 171108479 (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 3775276254125 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11258894295 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44504560569
Poor: 22% Great: 104%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 64GB 8,040 User benchmarks, average bench 13% 57GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	13.3% Very poor	Read 33.1 Write 10.9 Mixed 19.5 24% 21.2 MB/s	4K Read 3.89 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.88 102% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 13.3% Great: 19%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 4x16GB-$143 14,506 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	95.1% Outstanding	MC Read 32.1 MC Write 38.9 MC Mixed 31.8 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 36.3 SC Mixed 27.2 75% 26.3 GB/s	Latency 56.4 71% 56.4 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 135%

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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