Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 66% 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 91.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.9% 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	218% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (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	20161129
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 17 '18 at 18:35
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	3%

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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 i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.7% Outstanding	Memory 87 1-Core 142 2-Core 284 93% 171 Pts	4-Core 556 8-Core 553 74% 555 Pts	64-Core 540 34% 540 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2012 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.9% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 116 Parallax 109 93% 113 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 102 81% 98.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.9% 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% 151GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	218% Outstanding	Read 1,701 Write 1,098 Mixed 1,200 295% 1,333 MB/s	4K Read 57.2 4K Write 125 4K Mixed 47.3 214% 76.5 MB/s	DQ Read 542 DQ Write 310 DQ Mixed 175 198% 342 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 218% Great: 236%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 117GB free Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 24065 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1714 (B1) Unknown 87 87 152 (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 70 53 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 465 (F1) Unknown 99 99 94919000394	95.1% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 349 Mixed 352 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 43.3 4K Write 68.8 4K Mixed 27 137% 46.4 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 83.4 120% 226 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 118%
WD Black 2TB (2010)-$107 47,617 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 745GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 9 (03) Spinup time 253 253 8941 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4715 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 67 67 24097 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1709 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 137 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4577 (C2) HDA temperature 112 102 40 (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	49.8% Average	Read 79.5 Write 93.9 Mixed 83.2 64% 85.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.35 103% 1 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 49.8% Great: 85%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 343GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 169 4125 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3697 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14362 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1162 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 78 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 75 75 375052 (C2) HDA temperature 118 105 29 (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	64% Good	Read 113 Write 110 Mixed 113 84% 112 MB/s	4K Read 0.92 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.22 103% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 84%
WD My Passport 07A8 1TB 5,659 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 430GB free, PID 07a8 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	34.4% Below average	Read 48.9 Write 106 Mixed 44.9 92% 66.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.22 54% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 34.4% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1866 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.6% Good	MC Read 22.6 MC Write 22.3 MC Mixed 18.6 60% 21.2 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 20 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 70.5 57% 70.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 80%

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

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Typical Z170-AR Builds (Compare 1,425 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	646x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	429x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	98x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	127x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	126x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	90x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	81x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $447

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16