Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.8% 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	64.2% 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.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	7.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	25.1 Days
Run Date	Mar 12 '18 at 05:59
Run Duration	137 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing as expected (57^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 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 91.1 1-Core 126 2-Core 246 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 696 71% 577 Pts	64-Core 707 44% 707 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 90%

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: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 117 Parallax 101 92% 110 fps	MRender 99.3 Gravity 105 Splatting 108 86% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 37GB free 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 4441 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 536 (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 74 66 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 72 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4659829167	97.3% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 415 Mixed 421 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 26.3 152% 55.5 MB/s	DQ Read 46.5 DQ Write 282 DQ Mixed 106 99% 145 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 124%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 33GB free (System drive) Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 29168451 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 130601365539850 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 456 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 81 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 26 39 60132098074 (C2) HDA temperature 26 39 60132098074 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 29168451 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 29168451 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 29168451 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 42949672961 (E9) Unknown 0 0 5301 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2865 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2865 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2859 (F4) Unknown 99 99 5308449	64.2% Good	Read 512 Write 112 Mixed 176 58% 267 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 14.1 116% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 32.6 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 33.2 41% 69.1 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 75%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 312GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 168 166 2591 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2868 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6698 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 732 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 101 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6921 (C2) HDA temperature 112 106 31 (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	90.9% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 149 Mixed 137 113% 151 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.34 125% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 CMK8GX4M2A2400C14 16GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	71% Very good	MC Read 25.5 MC Write 26.2 MC Mixed 22.4 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 23.6 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 65.6 61% 65.6 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 99%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,380x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
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 $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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