Asus PRIME Z270-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 42% Speed boat	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 34% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	50.9% 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	58.6% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (71%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-AR (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1842 x 1036 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161011
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '17 at 04:46
Run Duration	190 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	71%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7400-$110 234,266 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.8% Very good	Memory 94.2 1-Core 110 2-Core 218 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 334 8-Core 402 48% 368 Pts	64-Core 431 27% 431 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 780-$329 50,279 User benchmarks, average bench 45% Gigabyte(1458 3604) 3GB CLim: 1293 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	50.9% Above average	Lighting 62.6 Reflection 53.6 Parallax 76 51% 64.1 fps	MRender 69.6 Gravity 69 Splatting 51.3 51% 63.3 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 50.9% Great: 49%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 256GB-$190 73,119 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 30GB free Firmware: DXM05B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 28586 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 559 (B1) Unknown 98 98 43 (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 48 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 295 (F1) Unknown 99 99 14966777444	77.5% Very good	Read 521 Write 233 Mixed 260 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 21.4 135% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 33.4 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 19.8 29% 52.7 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 116%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 6GB free (System drive) Firmware: R211 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 105 105 12092564 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 62 62 83305185706956 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 637 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 404 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 51 42953015325 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 12092564 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 12092564 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 12092564 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 91 91 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 42924 (EA) Unknown 0 0 26389 (F1) Unknown 0 0 26389 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13010	58.6% Above average	Read 428 Write 112 Mixed 147 50% 229 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 90.5 4K Mixed 13.5 110% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 33.9 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 19.7 31% 55.7 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 2TB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 106 99 1176 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9844 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 18110065 (09) Power-on hours count 20 20 70304 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 850 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 12885098499 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 47 26308378656 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 466 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10113 (C2) HDA temperature 32 53 -140737488355296 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 10 3 1176 (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 -97976793929939 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3311926051 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1578515784	77.3% Very good	Read 132 Write 138 Mixed 106 94% 125 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.7 122% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 75%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 104GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 125 117 6716 (04) Start/Stop count 89 89 11692 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 26 26 54225 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1049 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 594 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 20 20 541240 (C2) HDA temperature 115 90 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 194 193 1001 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 195 14 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 180 15	34.2% Below average	Read 63.9 Write 54.9 Mixed 62.4 46% 60.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.21 70% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 34.2% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 1x16GB 11,534 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3068 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	55.9% Above average	MC Read 20.3 MC Write 20.2 MC Mixed 16.3 54% 18.9 GB/s	SC Read 14.6 SC Write 19.6 SC Mixed 17.3 49% 17.2 GB/s	Latency 59.2 68% 59.2 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 55.9% Great: 64%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-AR - $160

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	552x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	203x
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 $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	46x

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

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $694

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