Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	71.3% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	111% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	55.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 30 '18 at 20:54
Run Duration	180 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$242 712,312 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 (98^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 91.8 1-Core 142 2-Core 282 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 514 8-Core 777 80% 645 Pts	64-Core 786 49% 786 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1564 MHz, MLim: 1825 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	71.3% Very good	Lighting 92.2 Reflection 90.9 Parallax 80.9 75% 88 fps	MRender 84.5 Gravity 80.7 Splatting 71.7 64% 79 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.3% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 304GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 698 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 272 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 63 57 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 16 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3023428365	111% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 399 Mixed 418 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 37 4K Write 97.9 4K Mixed 50.6 173% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 354 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 127 140% 239 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 51926176 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 515 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2334823 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1324 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 488 (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 68 53 555417632 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 984 (C2) HDA temperature 32 47 51539607584 (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 -64183991270134 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2359696715 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7172912143	99.6% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 168 Mixed 175 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.17 78% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016)-$80 112,118 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 109231136 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 516 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 60 1154929 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1328 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 487 (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 67 54 555483169 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1013 (C2) HDA temperature 33 46 60129542177 (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 -58798102280949 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3561306751 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1514179890	91% Outstanding	Read 170 Write 148 Mixed 145 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.22 79% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$32 107,978 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 465GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 55526597 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5001 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 252364148 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13474 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4968 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 93 22 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 504954910 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 42949672990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 22 55526597 (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 124498217036342 (F1) Unknown 100 253 531832633 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1068114451	68.5% Good	Read 123 Write 116 Mixed 113 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.61 131% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 30GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 142971016 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2478 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 50 48 2705879915161 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7319 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2467 (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 67 53 9145483297 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 65 65 71497 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 -140737488355295 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 50538880176368 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18066977385 (F2) Unknown 100 253 32212519795	70.4% Very good	Read 105 Write 140 Mixed 98 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.2 62% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x16GB 3,127 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 34.1 MC Mixed 28.4 89% 31.1 GB/s	SC Read 20.1 SC Write 36.5 SC Mixed 26.9 80% 27.8 GB/s	Latency 64.4 62% 64.4 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 130%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

Destroyer

Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,689x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,436x
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	863x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	809x

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 $95Bench 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	158x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $685

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