Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 121% UFO	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	134% 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	239% 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	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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170928
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '18 at 03:25
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	SAU-User
Background CPU	21%

PC Performing as expected (59^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 way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 93.3 1-Core 143 2-Core 287 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 732 74% 602 Pts	64-Core 770 48% 770 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6696) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	134% Outstanding	Lighting 192 Reflection 197 Parallax 201 157% 197 fps	MRender 121 Gravity 184 Splatting 121 114% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 134% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 213GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	239% Outstanding	Read 1,776 Write 1,625 Mixed 1,577 370% 1,660 MB/s	4K Read 45.8 4K Write 156 4K Mixed 35.5 197% 79 MB/s	DQ Read 43.9 DQ Write 430 DQ Mixed 227 178% 234 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 239% Great: 353%
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$70 2,931 User benchmarks, average bench 185% 124GB free Firmware: 57CZ4102 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	224% Outstanding	Read 1,853 Write 1,482 Mixed 1,257 340% 1,531 MB/s	4K Read 39.7 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 31.7 170% 67.1 MB/s	DQ Read 38.3 DQ Write 385 DQ Mixed 32.7 78% 152 MB/s
Poor: 116% ↑ This bench: 224% Great: 242%
Corsair Force GT 180GB-$395 889 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 11GB free Firmware: 1.3.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 94 94 56439552 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 29 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 50714973877229 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1621 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 18 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 67 77313802275 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 56439552 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 29 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 56439552 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 56439552 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 96 96 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 34801 (EA) Unknown 0 0 28121 (F1) Unknown 0 0 28121 (F2) Unknown 0 0 58007	78.5% Very good	Read 491 Write 187 Mixed 264 69% 314 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 18.8 129% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 208 DQ Mixed 69.9 95% 174 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.5% Great: 87%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$40 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 17GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 176 4041 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16458 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 36 36 47295 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1743 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 487 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15970 (C2) HDA temperature 108 91 39 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	36.1% Below average	Read 65 Write 60.3 Mixed 58.3 46% 61.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.43 115% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 36.1% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3866 C18 2x8GB 1,141 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (22^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	69.4% Good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 20.2 70% 24.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 20.6 SC Mixed 21.5 56% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 118%

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Typical STRIX Z270I GAMING Builds (Compare 944 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 107%

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Desktop 92%

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Workstation 91%

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Motherboard: Asus STRIX Z270I GAMING

CPU
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	505x
Core i5-7600KIntel $190Bench 76%, 195,006 samples	119x
Core i7-7700Intel $167Bench 76%, 256,717 samples	81x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	147x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	100x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	71x

SSD
1TB SSD 1TBLexarBench 184%, 3,679 samples	51x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 213%, 165,668 samples	48x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $45Bench 199%, 240,629 samples	38x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBKingstonBench 90%, 54,651 samples	62x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	45x

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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