Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 60% Destroyer	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 78.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	73.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	40.9% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	5.5 Days
Run Date	Jul 26 '17 at 00:25
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing below expectations (30^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 below expectations (27^th percentile)	78.1% Very good	Memory 85.8 1-Core 122 2-Core 223 82% 144 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 588 60% 484 Pts	64-Core 613 38% 613 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	73.8% Very good	Lighting 93.8 Reflection 98.6 Parallax 88.4 76% 93.6 fps	MRender 85.4 Gravity 85.6 Splatting 82 69% 84.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 73.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 91GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3655 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 514 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 68 57 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 58 (F1) Unknown 99 99 11318696836
Poor: 80% Great: 134%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: 521ABBF0 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 95 95 36424422 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 -90512140786719 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1529 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 425 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 40 38657327131 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 38657327131 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 36424422 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 36424422 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 36424422 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12753 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12611 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12611 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9313	40.9% Average	Read 152 Write 74.6 Mixed 99.8 24% 109 MB/s	4K Read 19.3 4K Write 86 4K Mixed 11.9 90% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 94.9 DQ Mixed 22.3 38% 73.4 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 73%
Toshiba DT01ABA300 3TB 5,677 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2TB free Firmware: MZ6OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 144 144 84 (03) Spinup time 136 136 34386018706 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6068 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 138 138 33 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 9094 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5634 (C0) Power-off retract count 93 93 8938 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 8938 (C2) HDA temperature 193 193 227634118687 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 475	75.3% Very good	Read 128 Write 134 Mixed 147 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.18 78% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 75.3% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 297GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 167 2375 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2072 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 9204 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1436 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 326 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1748 (C2) HDA temperature 113 95 30 (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	78.8% Very good	Read 137 Write 138 Mixed 140 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.22 104% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 4x8GB-$165 6,271 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	66.4% Good	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 21.9 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.3 SC Write 24 SC Mixed 18.2 52% 18.2 GB/s	Latency 71.4 56% 71.4 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 66.4% Great: 113%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	476x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	80x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	66x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	64x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	43x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	18x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	14x

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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $546

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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