Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 83.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	102% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 STRIX Z270F GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 05 '18 at 04:22
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (74^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.9% Excellent	Memory 83.2 1-Core 129 2-Core 262 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 508 66% 496 Pts	64-Core 504 31% 504 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C304) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 145 Parallax 119 109% 133 fps	MRender 90 Gravity 126 Splatting 106 88% 107 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$28 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 617GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 75 (03) Spinup time 114 114 17193238727 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5438 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 110 110 36 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10718 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3953 (C0) Power-off retract count 96 96 5443 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 5443 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 171799150622 (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	78.6% Very good	Read 155 Write 119 Mixed 106 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.16 70% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 78.6% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 99385464 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 784 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 225996636 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4300 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 783 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 92 92 8 (BE) vendor-specific 69 62 521928735 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1189 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 55834574879 (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 -52201032511246 (F1) Unknown 100 253 50118392776 (F2) Unknown 100 253 349741042967	91.3% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 148 Mixed 142 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.17 4K Write 0.58 4K Mixed 0.04 22% 0.26 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14D4/4G Corsair CMK8GX4M1A2400C16 KHX2133C14D4/4G 16GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1867, 1867, 1867 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	64.7% Good	MC Read 23.4 MC Write 25 MC Mixed 19.7 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 24.4 SC Mixed 19.8 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 74.9 53% 74.9 ns
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 64.7% Great: 65%

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Gaming 89%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 76%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270F GAMING - $439

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,919x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	768x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	367x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	910x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	786x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	783x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	268x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	268x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $96Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	198x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	356x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	289x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	138x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $991

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16