Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 60% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.5% 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	33.7% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Very high background CPU (63%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161208
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 11 '17 at 04:04
Run Duration	160 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	63%

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PC Performing as expected (50^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 95.8 1-Core 133 2-Core 254 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 366 8-Core 558 57% 462 Pts	64-Core 636 39% 636 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 117 Parallax 99 90% 109 fps	MRender 98 Gravity 103 Splatting 103 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 53GB free Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 4387 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 420 (A5) Unknown 100 100 2074507018802 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 20 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 13 (AE) Unknown 100 100 168 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 40 257698037803 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 803171205308 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3145 (EA) Unknown 100 100 5267 (F1) Unknown 253 253 3182 (F2) Unknown 253 253 5084 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	62.9% Good	Read 503 Write 77.9 Mixed 287 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 24.5 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 6.44 103% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 165 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 3.8 64% 147 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 62.9% Great: 86%
Adata SP900 64GB 416 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 5.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8338019 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 -50998441661987 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1160 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 198 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 64427655202 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8338019 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8338019 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8338019 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 10243 (EA) Unknown 0 0 8417 (F1) Unknown 0 0 8417 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7670	33.7% Below average	Read 252 Write 55.1 Mixed 92.1 29% 133 MB/s	4K Read 15.5 4K Write 49.4 4K Mixed 9.6 62% 24.8 MB/s	DQ Read 45.5 DQ Write 58.9 DQ Mixed 7.13 18% 37.2 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 33.7% Great: 62%
Toshiba DT01ACA100 1TB-$28 763,289 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 546GB free Firmware: MS2OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 142 142 71 (03) Spinup time 127 127 12896698548 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2687 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 115 115 34 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 10727 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1128 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2754 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2754 (C2) HDA temperature 230 230 193274576922 (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	80.7% Excellent	Read 137 Write 144 Mixed 130 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.18 69% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 80.7% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	53.7% Above average	MC Read 19.5 MC Write 18.8 MC Mixed 15.4 51% 17.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.6 SC Write 18.4 SC Mixed 15.6 47% 16.5 GB/s	Latency 54.6 73% 54.6 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 103%

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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	4,396x
Core i5-7600KIntel $184Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	787x
Core i7-7700k VHIntelBench 84%, 9,708 samples	342x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,032x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	947x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	895x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	439x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	309x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	229x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	488x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	261x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	226x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $759

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16