Asus Z170-P D3

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.73% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	97% 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-P D3 (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170215
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 09 '17 at 22:32
Run Duration	267 Seconds
Run User	MEX-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.75 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Memory 94.5 1-Core 114 2-Core 232 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 655 69% 552 Pts	64-Core 655 40% 655 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) FAQ - How to force Optimus or Switchable discrete GPUs? Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 21.20.16.4534 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	6.73% Terrible	Lighting 7 Reflection 10 Parallax 6.62 6% 7.89 fps	MRender 9.95 Gravity 6.07 Splatting 14.4 9% 10.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.73% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston KC1000 NVMe PCIe M.2 960GB-$773 339 User benchmarks, average bench 171% 182GB free Firmware: E7FT04.6 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	243% Outstanding	Read 2,244 Write 1,412 Mixed 1,556 384% 1,737 MB/s	4K Read 32.8 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 37 155% 60 MB/s	DQ Read 483 DQ Write 435 DQ Mixed 125 185% 347 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 243% Great: 221%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 61GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1958 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 753 (B1) Unknown 99 99 20 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 44 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 221 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7973286209	97% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 400 Mixed 408 98% 438 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 25.5 144% 52 MB/s	DQ Read 221 DQ Write 235 DQ Mixed 24.8 75% 160 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 124%
Hitachi HDN 724040ALE640 4TB 253 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	75.5% Very good	Read 131 Write 133 Mixed 118 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.97 4K Mixed 0.21 83% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 75.5% Great: 90%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2400 C11 4x4GB 5,522 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	85.3% Excellent	MC Read 31.7 MC Write 32.3 MC Mixed 26.8 86% 30.3 GB/s	SC Read 18.6 SC Write 32.1 SC Mixed 24.7 72% 25.1 GB/s	Latency 58.5 68% 58.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 91%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Desktop 70%

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Workstation 9%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-P D3 - $150

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	221x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	133x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	89x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	78x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	59x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x

SSD
MTFDDAV256TBN-1AR15ABHA 256GBCrucialBench 74%, 4,569 samples	36x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	27x
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	33x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	33x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x

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Value: 102% - Outstanding

Total price: $231

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