Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


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 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	62.8% 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.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	5.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	9.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 04 '18 at 01:19
Run Duration	211 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

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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-$230 712,312 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 (86^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 96.6 1-Core 137 2-Core 257 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 447 8-Core 740 72% 593 Pts	64-Core 764 47% 764 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 116 Parallax 109 91% 112 fps	MRender 96.6 Gravity 99.6 Splatting 100 81% 98.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 46GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 44605 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 289 (B1) Unknown 39 39 734 (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 61 56 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 21 (EB) Unknown 99 99 257 (F1) Unknown 99 99 138778512722	62.8% Good	Read 415 Write 118 Mixed 114 47% 216 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 91.5 4K Mixed 10.2 106% 43.7 MB/s	DQ Read 323 DQ Write 91.9 DQ Mixed 27.2 67% 147 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 73%
Crucial M4 128GB-$116 34,516 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 12GB free Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^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 43131 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 359 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 87 (AE) Unknown 100 100 323 (B5) Unknown 100 100 5201250026002 (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 84 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0	66.6% Good	Read 498 Write 186 Mixed 272 70% 319 MB/s	4K Read 29.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 6.64 107% 46.2 MB/s	DQ Read 141 DQ Write 122 DQ Mixed 4.58 38% 89 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 66.6% Great: 72%
Hitachi HDN724030ALE640 3TB 4,385 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 88GB free Firmware: MJ8OA5E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 82 (03) Spinup time 220 220 21492597033 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 284 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 119 119 35 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 37243 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 224 (C0) Power-off retract count 46 46 65535 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 207405 (C2) HDA temperature 133 133 214749610029 (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 0	52.3% Above average	Read 92.4 Write 89.6 Mixed 100 71% 94 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.73 4K Mixed 0.19 75% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 88%
Hitachi HDS5C3020ALA632 2TB-$270 9,828 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 15GB free Firmware: ML6OA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 134 134 100 (03) Spinup time 197 197 21491613998 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7854 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 144 144 30 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 63220 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 622 (C0) Power-off retract count 76 76 29335 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 76 76 29335 (C2) HDA temperature 162 162 266289152037 (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 200 200 747	36.8% Below average	Read 60.8 Write 67.4 Mixed 58.3 47% 62.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.31 4K Write 1.11 4K Mixed 0.2 55% 0.54 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 36.8% Great: 73%
Hitachi HDS722020ALA330 2TB-$71 17,356 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 6GB free Firmware: JKAOA28A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 133 133 100 (03) Spinup time 192 192 25796739414 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 7175 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 112 112 39 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 69925 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 627 (C0) Power-off retract count 64 64 43340 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 64 64 43340 (C2) HDA temperature 130 130 283469086766 (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 67	41.6% Average	Read 75.5 Write 69.4 Mixed 72.5 55% 72.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.32 74% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 41.6% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$36 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	86.6% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 33.2 MC Mixed 27.2 88% 30.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 29.7 SC Mixed 27.1 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 51.9 77% 51.9 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86.6% Great: 109%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,718x
Core i5-7600KIntel $184Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,444x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	617x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,150x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	870x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	812x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	374x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	343x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	768x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	326x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	160x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $661

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16