Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 100% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 106% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	126% 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	146% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 11 '18 at 02:39
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	6%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th 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-$242 712,312 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 (99^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 144 2-Core 283 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 794 81% 657 Pts	64-Core 792 49% 792 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 92%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 630 (Desktop Kaby Lake) 153,031 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 872F) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	8.11% Terrible	Lighting 8.43 Reflection 12.3 Parallax 8.56 7% 9.77 fps	MRender 12.8 Gravity 7.5 Splatting 16.7 10% 12.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 8.11% Great: 7%
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing below potential (64^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	126% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 188 Parallax 180 140% 180 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 178 Splatting 127 116% 143 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 499GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 996 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 153 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 72 63 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3891078629	116% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 408 Mixed 411 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 47.9 4K Write 96.5 4K Mixed 49.7 187% 64.7 MB/s	DQ Read 326 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 131 143% 240 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 133%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 111GB free Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (77^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8593318640 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -42485816484524 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 422 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 149 (B1) Unknown 0 0 99 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 33 41 81607065633 (C2) HDA temperature 33 41 81607065633 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 97 97 8593318640 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 97 97 8593318640 (CC) Soft ECC correction 97 97 8593318640 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5672 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1633 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1633 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1960	62.8% Good	Read 438 Write 109 Mixed 156 51% 234 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 17.6 120% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 57.9 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 31.3 40% 69.2 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 62.8% Great: 73%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB (2017)-$135 28,136 User benchmarks, average bench 121% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	146% Outstanding	Read 1,545 Write 457 Mixed 534 183% 845 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 82.9 4K Mixed 20.9 135% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 506 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 46.4 126% 276 MB/s
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 146% Great: 144%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 162350808 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 861 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 5597371 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2584 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 391 (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 67 60 572522529 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2898 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 81604378657 (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 118558277241702 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3931936818 (F2) Unknown 100 253 79053807879	84.4% Excellent	Read 113 Write 180 Mixed 128 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.18 4K Mixed 0.85 222% 2.26 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$55 215,644 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	97.5% Outstanding	MC Read 36.3 MC Write 38.4 MC Mixed 28.4 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 39.4 SC Mixed 32.1 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 49.3 81% 49.3 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 107%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,350x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	783x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,027x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	939x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	888x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	435x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	227x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	482x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	257x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 69% - Good

Total price: $993

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