Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 62% Destroyer	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 50% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	61.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	115% 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 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Apr 18 '18 at 00:43
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (74^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-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 94.2 1-Core 136 2-Core 272 93% 168 Pts	4-Core 526 8-Core 532 71% 529 Pts	64-Core 534 33% 534 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% EVGA(3842 2968) 2GB CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	38.3% Below average	Lighting 50.3 Reflection 47.7 Parallax 42.4 41% 46.8 fps	MRender 39.4 Gravity 43.6 Splatting 38.7 33% 40.6 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 36%
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Zotac(19DA 1438) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.2% Good	Lighting 76.6 Reflection 76.2 Parallax 66.5 62% 73.1 fps	MRender 71.9 Gravity 70.5 Splatting 72.5 59% 71.6 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 112GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19156 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 266 (B1) Unknown 98 98 28 (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 62 38 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 98 98 1711 (EB) Unknown 99 99 50 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13198201064	115% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 415 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 46.7 4K Write 96.6 4K Mixed 45.1 180% 62.8 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 273 DQ Mixed 26 97% 217 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 90GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17353 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 252 (B1) Unknown 97 97 50 (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 61 40 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 49 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22967206025	96.2% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 408 Mixed 420 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 42.3 4K Write 79.8 4K Mixed 31.9 147% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 222 DQ Write 77.7 DQ Mixed 48.1 62% 116 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 124%
Samsung PM841 mSATA 256GB 796 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 72GB free Firmware: DXT43D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2036 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 89 89 127 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 6240 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 27458913282 (F2) Unknown 99 99 62179739939	80.6% Excellent	Read 504 Write 243 Mixed 121 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 29.3 4K Write 99.1 4K Mixed 14.8 116% 47.7 MB/s	DQ Read 360 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 32.8 91% 199 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 80.6% Great: 77%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 982GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 161 6091 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 440 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8743 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 69 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 163 163 112554 (C2) HDA temperature 116 99 34 (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	68.8% Good	Read 131 Write 109 Mixed 108 87% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 0.42 4K Mixed 0.22 63% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 96%
WD My Passport 0820 1TB 16,483 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 163GB free, PID 0820 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	32.5% Below average	Read 94.2 Write 62.6 Mixed 53.9 83% 70.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.21 65% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 32.5% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB-$90 9,857 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	83.5% Excellent	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 32.7 MC Mixed 28 85% 29.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 31.5 SC Mixed 26.8 70% 24.6 GB/s	Latency 59.3 68% 59.3 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 98%

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

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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	3,882x
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 $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 $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 $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