Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	55.8% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	101% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171225
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 27 '18 at 21:36
Run Duration	221 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (58^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-$241 712,312 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 (97^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 93.4 1-Core 144 2-Core 285 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 785 79% 642 Pts	64-Core 793 49% 793 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390-$325 82,117 User benchmarks, average bench 50% Sapphire(174B E324) CLim: 1040 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.12.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	55.8% Above average	Lighting 69 Reflection 63 Parallax 89.3 56% 73.8 fps	MRender 62.2 Gravity 56.2 Splatting 78.4 55% 65.6 fps
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 52%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 156GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24618 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 160 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 57 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 52 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29667281198	101% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 405 Mixed 417 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 72.9 4K Mixed 42.9 156% 52.3 MB/s	DQ Read 198 DQ Write 143 DQ Mixed 80 84% 140 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 134%
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 39GB free Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 40695 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 542 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 78 63 22 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 198 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3081014589	82.4% Excellent	Read 507 Write 412 Mixed 451 102% 457 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 23.9 99% 37 MB/s	DQ Read 207 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 58.9 69% 122 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 86%
Seagate ST6000NE0021-2EN11C 6TB 185 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 4.5TB free Firmware: EN02 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 84 66 239906599 (03) Spinup time 88 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 14 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 61 27224504 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -11643656337559 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 12 (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 68 61 538771488 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 1055 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4532 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 73014444064 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 84 66 239906599 (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 -26903675140636 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13694498446 (F2) Unknown 100 253 151380521
Poor: 64% Great: 125%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 152 149 11358 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 239 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 25443 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 165 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 153 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 85 (C2) HDA temperature 122 85 30 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	87.4% Excellent	Read 154 Write 150 Mixed 142 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.24 101% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 112%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 641GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 147 144 11608 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 941 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 23017 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 153 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 850 (C2) HDA temperature 124 108 28 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	79.5% Very good	Read 124 Write 152 Mixed 150 108% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.85 4K Mixed 0.25 121% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 100%
WD WD1002FBYS-02A6B0 1TB 28,278 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 425GB free Firmware: 03.00C05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 86 (03) Spinup time 253 253 1158 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8319 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 98 0 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1863 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1141 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 8303 (C2) HDA temperature 117 93 33 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 12 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 13 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	48.2% Average	Read 92.3 Write 75 Mixed 79 62% 82.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.45 130% 1.25 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 48.2% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$56 31,641 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (26^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.2% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 20.3 71% 24.9 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 22.9 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.2% Great: 107%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	204x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	86x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	173x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	94x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	50x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	47x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	44x
Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $192Bench 83%, 40,358 samples	27x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $685

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