Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


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 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 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	120% 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	95.8% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	17.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	4.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 15 '17 at 09:23
Run Duration	227 Seconds
Run User	PER-User
Background CPU	23%

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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 89.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 230 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 609 64% 513 Pts	64-Core 673 42% 673 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 163 Reflection 193 Parallax 169 133% 175 fps	MRender 123 Gravity 167 Splatting 117 110% 136 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 152GB free Firmware: SAFM00.Y Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 5502 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 283 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 560 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65543 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 183 (C2) HDA temperature 67 61 167505035297 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 468 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 444 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1797 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1 (F5) Unknown 100 100 7 (F6) Unknown 100 100 135680	96.4% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 499 Mixed 507 114% 508 MB/s	4K Read 30.6 4K Write 88.8 4K Mixed 14.2 112% 44.5 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 14 89% 206 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 96.4% Great: 111%
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 134GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM00.U Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 9754 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 503 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (AA) Unknown 100 100 902 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4718736 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 262 (C2) HDA temperature 64 51 210454577188 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (DA) Unknown 100 100 1 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (E9) Unknown 100 100 15081 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9542 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8087 (F4) Unknown 100 100 72 (F5) Unknown 100 100 144 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4995840	95.8% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 498 Mixed 501 113% 505 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 87.1 4K Mixed 14.3 110% 43.9 MB/s	DQ Read 331 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 14.3 87% 202 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 111%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 480GB-$175 24,007 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 40GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2459 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 57 (64) Unknown 100 100 1923136 (65) Unknown 100 100 589824 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 32 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 283 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 2823 (B7) Unknown 99 99 6 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 100 193274839077 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 1 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3575 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2953 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3205 (F2) Unknown 100 100 878 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 1	65.4% Good	Read 468 Write 257 Mixed 270 73% 332 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 39.6 4K Mixed 11.8 80% 26.8 MB/s	DQ Read 237 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 31.3 64% 132 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 65.4% Great: 92%
HyperX Fury 240GB-$193 27,826 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 25GB free Firmware: 605ABBF2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4936849 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 -117828132785077 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 328 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 200 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 42 77312163866 (C2) HDA temperature 26 42 77312163866 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4936849 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4936849 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4936849 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 124554051585 (E9) Unknown 0 0 15841 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5095 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5095 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4534 (F4) Unknown 99 99 4259894	78.4% Very good	Read 499 Write 234 Mixed 310 76% 347 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 91.9 4K Mixed 21 118% 47 MB/s	DQ Read 187 DQ Write 242 DQ Mixed 62.2 89% 164 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 84%
WD Purple 3TB (2014)-$84 6,631 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 1.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 181 5833 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3442 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2309 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 137 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 81 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3362 (C2) HDA temperature 118 113 32 (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 100 253 0	70.6% Very good	Read 126 Write 120 Mixed 112 90% 119 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.15 67% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 70.6% Great: 85%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 3TB 1,083 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 387GB free, PID 0210 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	34.8% Below average	Read 79.7 Write 82.2 Mixed 69.2 99% 77 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.15 64% 0.74 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 51%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 4x8GB 1,538 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.7% Good	MC Read 23.3 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 21.5 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.3 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 21.3 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 67.8 59% 67.8 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 93%

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Gaming 71%

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Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 61%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z270-A - $159

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	3,687x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,434x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	612x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,144x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	862x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	807x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	372x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	339x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $76Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	240x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	761x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	323x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	157x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $693

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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