Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 81% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	111% 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	65.1% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S (all builds)
Memory	29.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 10 '16 at 02:17
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 84.6 1-Core 126 2-Core 247 85% 153 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 707 69% 565 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	111% Outstanding	Lighting 151 Reflection 151 Parallax 130 123% 144 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 136 Splatting 106 96% 118 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 Series 500GB 33 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 244GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 52 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 16 (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 55 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 585485349	119% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 464 Mixed 503 110% 490 MB/s	4K Read 41.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 56 190% 67.1 MB/s	DQ Read 210 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 130 131% 209 MB/s
Poor: 92% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 131%
Samsung 830 128GB-$109 37,250 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11676 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2444 (B1) Unknown 95 95 181 (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 59 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 280 (F1) Unknown 99 99 21360958133	65.1% Good	Read 477 Write 237 Mixed 349 78% 354 MB/s	4K Read 19.7 4K Write 58.8 4K Mixed 18.7 85% 32.4 MB/s	DQ Read 200 DQ Write 74.4 DQ Mixed 54.1 62% 110 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 65.1% Great: 76%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 534GB free Firmware: CC4D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24016656 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8449 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 62 57 77338528472 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11434 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2397 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 60 471269404 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 205 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 80859 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 60129542172 (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 -105059195023567 (F1) Unknown 100 253 80015663312256 (F2) Unknown 100 253 68465338895260	99.1% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 178 Mixed 171 130% 172 MB/s	4K Read 1.08 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.38 117% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 99.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD 4x8GB 407 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (12^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.4% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 24 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 27.8 SC Mixed 22.7 64% 22.4 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 74.4% Great: 129%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	467x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	48x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	137x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	52x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	25x
BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 5,640 samples	20x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	19x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $664

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