Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 100% UFO	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (87th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 13 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 93.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.8% 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	273% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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-A (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	14.8 Days
Run Date	Oct 20 '17 at 15:06
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	CHE-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	93.4% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 143 2-Core 280 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 782 78% 638 Pts	64-Core 774 48% 774 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.4% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 112 Parallax 105 88% 108 fps	MRender 92.3 Gravity 96.1 Splatting 97.4 78% 95.3 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 152GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	273% Outstanding	Read 2,688 Write 1,192 Mixed 1,382 385% 1,754 MB/s	4K Read 61 4K Write 138 4K Mixed 51.9 232% 83.5 MB/s	DQ Read 649 DQ Write 380 DQ Mixed 209 238% 413 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 273% Great: 236%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 144GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 18980554 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 -92419106272996 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1031 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 126 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 49 68722688027 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 68722688027 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 18980554 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 18980554 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 18980554 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 120259084288 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6794 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6839 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6839 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13074 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1835020	64.3% Good	Read 427 Write 314 Mixed 276 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 21 4K Mixed 20 78% 22.8 MB/s	DQ Read 108 DQ Write 82.1 DQ Mixed 47.8 49% 79.4 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 64.3% Great: 65%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$48 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 356GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 170 2408 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 617 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1212 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 443 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 62 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 618 (C2) HDA temperature 113 107 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	103% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 179 Mixed 162 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.32 106% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	76.1% Very good	MC Read 28.8 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 22.3 75% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 27.8 SC Mixed 25 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 76.1% Great: 90%

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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	3,880x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
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 $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