Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 52% Yacht


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 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 74.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	85.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	65% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 01 '17 at 13:20
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	HUN-User
Background CPU	6%

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 i5-6600-$133 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 3 cores, 3 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	74.9% Very good	Memory 93.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 220 81% 141 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 329 44% 329 Pts	64-Core 332 20% 332 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 74.9% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 372.90 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 115 Parallax 116 88% 113 fps	MRender 94.5 Gravity 100 Splatting 96.5 80% 97.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier Pro SP920 512GB-$95 303 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 181GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.08 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 798 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1117 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 501 (AE) Unknown 100 100 48 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 26 36 2359322 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4224022 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5620279 (F1) Unknown 0 0 3389421 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4255469	65% Good	Read 522 Write 77.6 Mixed 473 79% 358 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 92 4K Mixed 15.2 114% 45.8 MB/s	DQ Read 44.1 DQ Write 259 DQ Mixed 22.8 55% 109 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 65% Great: 99%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 864GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199254336 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 707 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4120214 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1639 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 501 (B7) Unknown 96 96 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 67 370278422 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 824 (C2) HDA temperature 22 40 60129542166 (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 74208444941990 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11214547979 (F2) Unknown 100 253 5310456373	92.2% Outstanding	Read 142 Write 179 Mixed 126 111% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.25 4K Mixed 0.86 224% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 92.2% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2186 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	82% Excellent	MC Read 27.7 MC Write 31 MC Mixed 28.2 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 31 SC Mixed 25.6 71% 25 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 85%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,876x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,373x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	634x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,314x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	807x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	735x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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	548x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
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 $132	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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