Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 83% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (39th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 61 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	104% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (42%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING (all builds)
Memory	23.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180622
Uptime	8.8 Days
Run Date	Jan 24 '20 at 16:58
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	42%

PC Performing below expectations (39^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 85.7 1-Core 133 2-Core 214 83% 144 Pts	4-Core 431 8-Core 745 71% 588 Pts	64-Core 991 61% 991 Pts
Poor: 76% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 100%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 432.0 Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 142 Parallax 148 114% 143 fps	MRender 98.7 Gravity 134 Splatting 99 90% 110 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 250GB-$23 32,491 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: KC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 74 69 66 83 85 99 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	48.3% Average	Read 89.2 Write 20.3 Mixed 41.8 SusWrite 79.3 42% 57.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.5 92% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 48.3% Great: 74%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 929GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 186 189 186 190 196 199 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 132 Mixed 72.2 SusWrite 191 108% 148 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.8 162% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 113%
Seagate BUP BK 5TB 4,756 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0304 SusWrite @10s intervals: 115 115 115 118 117 118 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	60.8% Good	Read 95 Write 117 Mixed 67 SusWrite 116 73% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 3.5 4K Mixed 0.6 169% 1.67 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 60.8% Great: 67%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GB 76,101 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	66.9% Good	MC Read 23.7 MC Write 26 MC Mixed 22.6 69% 24.1 GB/s	SC Read 13.2 SC Write 21 SC Mixed 18.9 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 106%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Motherboard: Asus TUF Z370-PLUS GAMING - $135

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $186Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	1,511x
Core i5-8600KIntel $173Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	832x
Core i7-8700Intel $200Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	573x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	401x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	346x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	338x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	115x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	105x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	97x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	145x
DDR4 3000 2OZ 2x8GBAdataBench 87%, 25,457 samples	90x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	83x

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Value: 73% - Very good

Total price: $844

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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