Asus PRIME Z270-A

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.9% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z270-A (all builds)
Memory	18.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170723
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '18 at 10:35
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	ARE-User
Background CPU	8%

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PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700-$167 256,717 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.6 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	86% Excellent	Memory 90.9 1-Core 123 2-Core 225 84% 146 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 711 70% 574 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 84%

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: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 120 Parallax 110 92% 114 fps	MRender 94.6 Gravity 104 Splatting 104 83% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 240GB (2016) 20,831 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 214GB free Firmware: Z3311000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 594 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 152 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12911444309 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 3 (AE) Unknown 100 100 12 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 56 188978561059 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 485334646897 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 864 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3194 (F1) Unknown 253 253 1491 (F2) Unknown 253 253 1103 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	57.8% Above average	Read 489 Write 245 Mixed 189 67% 308 MB/s	4K Read 19.9 4K Write 46.4 4K Mixed 3.23 59% 23.2 MB/s	DQ Read 169 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 3.02 46% 110 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 841GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 138954731 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 497 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4288043 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 668 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 471334940 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 503 (C2) HDA temperature 28 18 77309411356 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 1 1 138954731 (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 103633265885477 (F1) Unknown 100 253 949239512 (F2) Unknown 100 253 762825238	100% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 164 Mixed 134 120% 161 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.21 82% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905625-075.A00G 2x16GB 297 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	83.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.5 MC Write 32.1 MC Mixed 25.9 84% 29.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 34.2 SC Mixed 26.4 76% 26.5 GB/s	Latency 65.9 61% 65.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 85%

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Gaming 71%

Battleship

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	3,689x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	1,436x
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	863x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	809x

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	158x

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Value: 93% - Outstanding

Total price: $693

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