Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 90.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.5% 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	74.1% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (27%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 10 '17 at 00:09
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$242 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.8 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	90.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 145 2-Core 280 97% 174 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 725 73% 592 Pts	64-Core 787 49% 787 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.59 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 120 Parallax 101 92% 112 fps	MRender 98.7 Gravity 103 Splatting 106 84% 103 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 830 256GB-$261 25,763 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 191GB free (System drive) Firmware: CXM03B1Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12676 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2348 (B1) Unknown 90 90 357 (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 66 47 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 575 (F1) Unknown 99 99 42209547104	74.1% Very good	Read 508 Write 296 Mixed 426 91% 410 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 59.3 4K Mixed 23.3 94% 34.7 MB/s	DQ Read 250 DQ Write 73.8 DQ Mixed 55.3 68% 126 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 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 118 99 189695520 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3271 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 17234848226 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10826 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1977 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 1011 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 65 52 606208035 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 496 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 37021 (C2) HDA temperature 35 48 51539607587 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 141 8107 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 132499741090125 (F1) Unknown 100 253 44280159079 (F2) Unknown 100 253 58645486361	67.2% Good	Read 119 Write 115 Mixed 133 93% 122 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.97 4K Mixed 0.2 60% 0.55 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016)-$51 462,780 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 502GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 228358424 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 10 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 641122 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 108 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 10 (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 65 61 589299747 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 43 (C2) HDA temperature 35 40 94489280547 (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 -94137093193622 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3211180512 (F2) Unknown 100 253 318702825	79.8% Very good	Read 143 Write 135 Mixed 142 106% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.68 4K Mixed 0.15 35% 0.32 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	98.6% Outstanding	MC Read 36 MC Write 37.8 MC Mixed 30.6 99% 34.8 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 39.3 SC Mixed 29.9 87% 30.3 GB/s	Latency 52 77% 52 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 103%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	643x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	426x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	126x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	124x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	89x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	88x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	80x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

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