Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 90.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	112% 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	66.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '17 at 11:13
Run Duration	200 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.3% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 132 2-Core 263 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 477 8-Core 720 74% 599 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 150 Reflection 153 Parallax 131 122% 145 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 140 Splatting 111 99% 123 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 189GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 765 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 227 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 57 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 30 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2348873088	119% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 408 Mixed 422 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 46.1 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 50.8 191% 67.5 MB/s	DQ Read 375 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 129 151% 262 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 134%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 7852177 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 137670881706752 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 228 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 34 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 41 64427196442 (C2) HDA temperature 26 41 64427196442 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 7852177 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 7852177 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 7852177 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 193273528320 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1651 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1359 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1359 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1397 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1966091	66.4% Good	Read 436 Write 121 Mixed 173 53% 243 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 18.1 125% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 104 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 30.3 48% 89.7 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 75%
Crucial BX200 960GB-$80 1,195 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 48GB free Firmware: MU01.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 64 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 216 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 116 (A3) Unknown 100 100 1147 (94) Unknown 100 100 30705 (95) Unknown 100 100 260 (96) Unknown 100 100 110 (97) Unknown 100 100 240 (A4) Unknown 100 100 14822 (A5) Unknown 100 100 17 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 14 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36439041703963 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 86034 (F2) Unknown 100 100 41466 (F5) Unknown 100 100 175084 (F6) Unknown 100 100 122820 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	78.1% Very good	Read 484 Write 256 Mixed 268 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 63.6 4K Mixed 23.3 111% 39.3 MB/s	DQ Read 273 DQ Write 181 DQ Mixed 42.8 82% 166 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 100%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 45GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4436604 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -7980049235245 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 218 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 28 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 39 60132098073 (C2) HDA temperature 25 39 60132098073 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4436604 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4436604 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4436604 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 90194313216 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1471 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1120 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1120 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1150 (F4) Unknown 100 100 655363	55.5% Above average	Read 500 Write 247 Mixed 274 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 13.7 4K Write 22.9 4K Mixed 13.7 50% 16.7 MB/s	DQ Read 143 DQ Write 80.7 DQ Mixed 39.7 49% 87.8 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 65%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 502GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 67 43 10232 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 361 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4011 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 260 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1371047 (BF) G-sense error rate 64 64 364857 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 49 219044118551 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 79 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 362	79.7% Very good	Read 136 Write 142 Mixed 118 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 2.47 4K Mixed 0.34 106% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 79.7% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (38^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75% Very good	MC Read 27.1 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 22.9 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 30.7 SC Mixed 24.6 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 64 62% 64 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 75% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,380x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	299x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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