Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 87.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	93.7% 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	123% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	27.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170322
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '17 at 00:25
Run Duration	264 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (57^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-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.3% Excellent	Memory 84.4 1-Core 144 2-Core 282 93% 170 Pts	4-Core 485 8-Core 757 77% 621 Pts	64-Core 762 47% 762 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Lighting 124 Reflection 123 Parallax 111 101% 119 fps	MRender 100 Gravity 109 Splatting 87.7 80% 98.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 555GB free Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	303% Outstanding	Read 2,513 Write 1,487 Mixed 1,384 395% 1,795 MB/s	4K Read 59.3 4K Write 153 4K Mixed 63.6 252% 92.1 MB/s	DQ Read 900 DQ Write 674 DQ Mixed 321 366% 632 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 303% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$125 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 44GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8706 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 997 (B1) Unknown 97 97 134 (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 56 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 86 86 14013 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22596905572	123% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 486 Mixed 514 113% 506 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 49.3 185% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 331 DQ Mixed 167 174% 285 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 124%
Seagate Expansion 4TB 22,017 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 781GB free Firmware: 9300 Performing below expectations (39^th percentile)	42.9% Average	Read 70.9 Write 76.9 Mixed 57.4 51% 68.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 6.16 4K Mixed 0.42 180% 2.35 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 66%
WD WD10S21X-24R1BT0-SSHD-8GB 1TB 17,076 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 693GB free Firmware: 03.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 191 184 1450 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12967 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2433 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1387 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 81 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 188 188 36369 (C2) HDA temperature 122 92 25 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 98 98 1774	39.1% Below average	Read 61.7 Write 74.5 Mixed 60.9 49% 65.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.18 71% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 39.1% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$34 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 86GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29377440 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1820 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 45856863 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 14792 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1600 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 73 56 454623259 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 25 25 151576 (C2) HDA temperature 27 44 34359738395 (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 45316199948549 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38448831171 (F2) Unknown 100 253 85866996964	63.8% Good	Read 135 Write 87.4 Mixed 142 92% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.16 61% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 63.8% Great: 112%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$38 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 27GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 38898488 (03) Spinup time 95 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1178 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34377220 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 8769 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 962 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 196616 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 505085982 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7986 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 38654705694 (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 24485608564497 (F1) Unknown 100 253 22959893898 (F2) Unknown 100 253 155968409885	76.7% Very good	Read 128 Write 138 Mixed 120 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 0.49 165% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 20GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7960 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 6759 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 31048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3896 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 251 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 80 53 336855060 (C2) HDA temperature 77 50 387186711 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 662767 (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 100 100 5 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.4% Above average	Read 90.3 Write 85.4 Mixed 90.7 67% 88.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.32 73% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 50.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Avexir DDR4-3200 CL16 8GB 4x8GB 20 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (7^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.7% Very good	MC Read 25.9 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 22.7 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 21.8 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 106%

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Workstation 76%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING - $199

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	4,370x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	784x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $265Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,029x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	942x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	893x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	437x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	486x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	258x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	224x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $831

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $177	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