Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	108% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	98.6% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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 (43%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 (all builds)
Memory	28.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 21 '17 at 05:09
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	79.8% Very good	Memory 94.7 1-Core 106 2-Core 196 78% 132 Pts	4-Core 351 8-Core 621 59% 486 Pts	64-Core 737 46% 737 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Lighting 142 Reflection 148 Parallax 143 116% 144 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 140 Splatting 110 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$122 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 419GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1292 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 783 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 69 52 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 126 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21952195028	98.6% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 400 Mixed 421 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 45.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 27.8 159% 59.2 MB/s	DQ Read 45.5 DQ Write 267 DQ Mixed 28.8 60% 114 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 312GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1313 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 440 (B1) Unknown 99 99 13 (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 70 56 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 108 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6746163030
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 312GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3546 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 991 (B1) Unknown 96 96 75 (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 67 32 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 138 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29754588924
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 3TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 201 141 6941 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4145 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9911 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1977 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 696 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 32025 (C2) HDA temperature 115 73 37 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 3	116% Outstanding	Read 232 Write 170 Mixed 150 137% 184 MB/s	4K Read 3.88 4K Write 3.56 4K Mixed 0.33 265% 2.59 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 67%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$60 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 3TB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 168 941 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12468 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 46 46 39527 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 680 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 266 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 739897 (C2) HDA temperature 110 92 40 (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 200 154 279 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 260	121% Outstanding	Read 244 Write 178 Mixed 154 143% 192 MB/s	4K Read 4.21 4K Write 3.49 4K Mixed 0.22 265% 2.64 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 32GB 86 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3139, 3139, 3139, 3139 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 38.5 MC Write 39.4 MC Mixed 32.6 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 39.3 SC Mixed 25.3 79% 27.5 GB/s	Latency 58 69% 58 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 101%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus TUF Z270 MARK 2 - $129

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	921x
Core i5-7600KIntel $184Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	324x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	185x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	269x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	219x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	202x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	56x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	51x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	49x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	93x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	56x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	35x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $627

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