Asus Z170-K

Performance Results


Gaming 109% UFO	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 92% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 87.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	124% 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	101% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-K (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160506
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 12 '17 at 21:27
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.5% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 128 2-Core 246 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 670 69% 556 Pts	64-Core 698 43% 698 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3751) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2808 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 384.76 Performing below potential (50^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 171 Reflection 193 Parallax 188 139% 184 fps	MRender 125 Gravity 165 Splatting 121 111% 137 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 282GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 779 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 650 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 59 50 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 25 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7910669813	101% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 408 Mixed 416 99% 447 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 90.3 4K Mixed 27.2 149% 53.8 MB/s	DQ Read 317 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 109 126% 218 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 186GB free Firmware: 0C3J96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2694 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 357 (64) Unknown 100 100 3853248 (65) Unknown 100 100 1848928 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 43 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 97 97 1135 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1380 (B7) Unknown 91 91 43 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 36 100 180389412900 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 1 (E7) Temperature 91 91 9 (E9) Unknown 100 100 6636 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2787 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4766 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8687 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 1	71.7% Very good	Read 496 Write 268 Mixed 271 76% 345 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 52.8 4K Mixed 12.4 89% 31.8 MB/s	DQ Read 291 DQ Write 155 DQ Mixed 29.1 73% 158 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 71.7% Great: 88%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 281GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 144323696 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 845 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 124828044 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6175 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 839 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 16 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 62 504758300 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 137 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17158 (C2) HDA temperature 28 40 21474836508 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 17 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 98204427228647 (F1) Unknown 100 253 41687007786 (F2) Unknown 100 253 640864709155	71.2% Very good	Read 128 Write 120 Mixed 94.1 85% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.18 64% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 112%
Samsung HD103SJ 4TB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 187GB free Firmware: CC54 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 119766320 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 419 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 34560818 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2713 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 424 (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 70 58 521535518 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 52 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6701 (C2) HDA temperature 30 42 42949672990 (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 -15603616183857 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18518997570 (F2) Unknown 100 253 273904982962	69.8% Good	Read 139 Write 105 Mixed 107 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 0.35 4K Mixed 0.17 52% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 103%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$64 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 47GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 6796768 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 755 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 57924712 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5830 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 746 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 538312735 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 91 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13452 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 21474836511 (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 -10501195033335 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19283000666 (F2) Unknown 100 253 570220650343	114% Outstanding	Read 207 Write 191 Mixed 181 145% 193 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.19 75% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 113%

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 @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	76.5% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 29.2 MC Mixed 23.6 76% 26.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.9 SC Write 29 SC Mixed 24.3 69% 24.1 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 85%

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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-K - $299

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,120x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	547x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	359x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	342x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	270x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	227x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	198x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	85x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	67x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	96x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	76x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	67x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $759

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16