Asus PRIME Z270-K

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 45% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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. Despite its good single core score this processor isn't appropriate for workstation use due to its relatively weak multi-core performance. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	82% 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	66.8% 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-K (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170707
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 19:10
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing as expected (46^th 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 above expectations (85^th percentile)	69.8% Good	Memory 94.4 1-Core 98.9 2-Core 218 79% 137 Pts	4-Core 256 8-Core 307 36% 281 Pts	64-Core 315 20% 315 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 859F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 112 Parallax 106 84% 107 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 93.4 Splatting 97.6 78% 95.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 14040409 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 -106008382793307 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 540 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 265 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 30 37 55836999710 (C2) HDA temperature 30 37 55836999710 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 14040409 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 14040409 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 14040409 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 77309411328 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4788 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5998 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5998 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7580 (F4) Unknown 100 100 2686995	66.8% Good	Read 508 Write 226 Mixed 292 75% 342 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 91.8 4K Mixed 12.7 103% 43.3 MB/s	DQ Read 33.9 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 13 27% 52.1 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 66.8% Great: 85%
Corsair Force 3 120GB-$109 22,358 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 77GB free Firmware: 5.07 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2933657 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 -84430467077120 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1332 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1007 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 2933657 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 2933657 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 2933657 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 17612 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11889 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11889 (F2) Unknown 0 0 12074	46.8% Average	Read 201 Write 115 Mixed 148 34% 154 MB/s	4K Read 20.8 4K Write 93.1 4K Mixed 14.7 100% 42.9 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 107 DQ Mixed 31.6 34% 54.4 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 61%
SanDisk Extreme 120GB-$160 11,787 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 40GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3810048 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 -137052406395031 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1391 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 969 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 25772556316 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3810048 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3810048 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3810048 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 14501 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11159 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11159 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8251	65.7% Good	Read 484 Write 128 Mixed 209 60% 274 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 18.4 114% 45.3 MB/s	DQ Read 113 DQ Write 132 DQ Mixed 38.2 52% 94.2 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 81%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 125GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 64 124631737 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 70 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4486308 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 186 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 55 (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 69 67 538509343 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 73 (C2) HDA temperature 31 19 81604378655 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 124631737 (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 -83730387435339 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3805309453 (F2) Unknown 100 253 727340218	72.9% Very good	Read 127 Write 127 Mixed 112 92% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.25 83% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 72.9% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3001 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	56.2% Above average	MC Read 19.7 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 17.5 54% 19 GB/s	SC Read 14.9 SC Write 19.4 SC Mixed 17.9 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 58.8 68% 58.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 104%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-K - $74

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	935x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	451x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	296x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	316x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	293x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	259x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	117x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	136x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	61x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $859

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	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) $30	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