Asus PRIME Z370-A

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 95.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.1% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	97.9% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus PRIME Z370-A (all builds)
Memory	6 GB free of 8 GB @ 3.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180108
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 03 '18 at 22:12
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-8400-$114 312,220 User benchmarks, average bench 82% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 6 cores, 6 threads Base clock 2.8 GHz, turbo 3.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.4% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 129 2-Core 247 90% 158 Pts	4-Core 503 8-Core 740 78% 622 Pts	64-Core 743 46% 743 Pts
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel UHD Graphics 630 (Desktop Coffee Lake i5 i7) 147,588 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 22.20.16.4758 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	7.1% Terrible	Lighting 7.3 Reflection 11 Parallax 7.38 6% 8.56 fps	MRender 11.4 Gravity 6.3 Splatting 15.1 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.1% Great: 7%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 430GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 61 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 66 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 71 66 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 376551260	97.9% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 403 Mixed 416 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 41 4K Write 85.1 4K Mixed 36.6 154% 54.2 MB/s	DQ Read 39.8 DQ Write 234 DQ Mixed 118 97% 131 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 134%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$59 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 175 5808 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 611 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 504 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 409 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2268 (C2) HDA temperature 127 118 23 (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	49.1% Average	Read 87.8 Write 83.1 Mixed 83.7 64% 84.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.27 103% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3866 C18 2x4GB 41 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3867 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	MC Read 47 MC Write 51.5 MC Mixed 33.5 126% 44 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 45.8 SC Mixed 30.9 95% 33.1 GB/s	Latency 48.4 83% 48.4 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 121%

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Workstation 100%

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Motherboard: Asus PRIME Z370-A - $132

CPU
Core i7-8700KIntel $177Bench 88%, 746,287 samples	6,064x
Core i5-8600KIntel $125Bench 91%, 264,837 samples	2,153x
Core i7-8700Intel $186Bench 87%, 349,567 samples	962x

GPU
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $499Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	1,123x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,083x
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	754x

SSD
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	547x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $84Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	502x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	415x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	856x
Trident Z RGB DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $50Bench 84%, 215,644 samples	319x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x8GBCorsairBench 87%, 76,101 samples	309x

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