Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 92%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.3% 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	97.5% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171017
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 05:11
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (48^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-8700K-$186 746,287 User benchmarks, average bench 88% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 12 threads Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	92% Outstanding	Memory 91.1 1-Core 135 2-Core 266 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 897 84% 698 Pts	64-Core 1,144 71% 1,144 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 92% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 119 Parallax 94.5 85% 106 fps	MRender 98.2 Gravity 97.8 Splatting 104 82% 99.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 132GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5570 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 657 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 69 56 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 70 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7555340885	113% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 399 Mixed 417 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 95.7 4K Mixed 51.1 175% 61.8 MB/s	DQ Read 378 DQ Write 264 DQ Mixed 128 148% 257 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 45GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7970 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1518 (B1) Unknown 88 88 243 (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 68 50 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 153 (F1) Unknown 99 99 37436247305	97.5% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 399 Mixed 407 96% 434 MB/s	4K Read 38.1 4K Write 93 4K Mixed 30.1 146% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 240 DQ Write 210 DQ Mixed 89.6 104% 180 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda Green 1.5TB-$130 20,479 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 278GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 0 (03) Spinup time 93 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5179 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 112 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 99336031692 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 33175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2846 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BC) Unknown 100 98 4295098492 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 46 471400476 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 594 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6593 (C2) HDA temperature 28 54 51539607580 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 22 7 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 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 22333829966547 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2385817595 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2454989613	49.1% Average	Read 91 Write 80.3 Mixed 95.2 67% 88.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 0.66 4K Mixed 0.48 81% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 69%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 3 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	41.5% Average	MC Read 14.5 MC Write 14.2 MC Mixed 11.6 38% 13.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 14.7 SC Mixed 13.9 40% 13.9 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 41.5% Great: 88%

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Gaming 111%

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Desktop 95%

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Workstation 102%

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Motherboard: Asus ROG STRIX Z370-E GAMING - $210

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	7,117x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	1,240x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	565x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,663x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,205x
RTX 3080Nvidia $910Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	654x

SSD
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	537x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	499x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	425x

RAM
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $55Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	562x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	511x
Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GBG.SKILL $113Bench 91%, 87,239 samples	472x

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Value: 77% - Very good

Total price: $979

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