Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 47% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 99.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	51.6% 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	69% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	13.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 13 '18 at 15:34
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.2% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 148 2-Core 295 99% 180 Pts	4-Core 586 8-Core 577 78% 581 Pts	64-Core 561 35% 561 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 99.2% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% MSI(1462 3081) CLim: 977 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 18.5.2 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	51.6% Above average	Lighting 63.8 Reflection 58 Parallax 73.6 52% 65.1 fps	MRender 57.6 Gravity 51.6 Splatting 72.9 51% 60.7 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 51.6% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Mushkin ECO2 240GB-$109 340 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 183GB free (System drive) Firmware: 603ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 10102978 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 75359496177144 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 580 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 221 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 32 51 1005025689632 (C2) HDA temperature 32 51 1005025689632 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 10102978 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 10102978 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 10102978 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 94 94 47244640257 (E9) Unknown 0 0 7733 (EA) Unknown 0 0 3435 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3435 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4755	69% Good	Read 458 Write 194 Mixed 262 67% 305 MB/s	4K Read 22.7 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 16.3 109% 46.7 MB/s	DQ Read 107 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 50.2 71% 127 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 69% Great: 83%
Sandisk PLUS 240 GB 240GB 24,911 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 49GB free Firmware: UF4500RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 781 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 272 (A5) Unknown 100 100 865 (A6) Unknown 100 100 9 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 16 (A9) Unknown 100 100 168 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 114 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 57 244813135900 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 2400908739119 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2215 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6594 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2789 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2452 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	61.5% Good	Read 521 Write 370 Mixed 402 96% 431 MB/s	4K Read 20.1 4K Write 39.4 4K Mixed 6.06 59% 21.8 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 42.6 DQ Mixed 6.53 12% 24.1 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 56%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 196244948 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 640 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 31956225 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 74144020432706 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 430 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 25770199028 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 58 454557723 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 340 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2300 (C2) HDA temperature 27 42 85899345947 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 64 196244948 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 190 6923 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 117471650514343 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11400063199 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19814319444	42.6% Average	Read 86.6 Write 60.7 Mixed 54.2 50% 67.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 4.69 4K Mixed 0.29 134% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 42.6% Great: 90%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$31 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 530GB free Firmware: MS2OA7L0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 70 (03) Spinup time 128 128 12896764082 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 918 (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 100 100 2522 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 496 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2599 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2599 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 188979281951 (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 66	62.9% Good	Read 112 Write 108 Mixed 123 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.15 54% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 7,253 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3183 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 39.4 MC Write 42.3 MC Mixed 35.1 111% 38.9 GB/s	SC Read 23.7 SC Write 39.2 SC Mixed 33.1 91% 32 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 107%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,696x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,438x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	613x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	864x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	341x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $92Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	241x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	765x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	324x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	160x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $684

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	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) $37	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