Asus Z170-K

Performance Results


Gaming 104% UFO	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 81.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	128% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	85.2% 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-K (all builds)
Memory	10.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150717
Uptime	6.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 01:10
Run Duration	111 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$49 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	81.4% Excellent	Memory 84.3 1-Core 115 2-Core 225 80% 141 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 457 61% 454 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% EVGA(3842 6393) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (76^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 179 Reflection 197 Parallax 173 146% 183 fps	MRender 126 Gravity 171 Splatting 121 113% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
ST3500413AS 750GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 229GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR011 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 175 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 22 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 200 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 421 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 98 98 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 68 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 56 188979347479 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 22 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 98 98 2 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 16464525574 (F7) Unknown 100 100 515226077 (F8) Unknown 100 100 255744056 (B4) Unknown 0 0 3585 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85.2% Excellent	Read 487 Write 471 Mixed 479 107% 479 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 95.1 4K Mixed 20.3 116% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 28.1 DQ Write 103 DQ Mixed 60.8 48% 63.9 MB/s
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 100%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$20 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 296GB free Firmware: KC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 592 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 652 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 2649673 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4259 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 650 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 11 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 51 437256218 (C2) HDA temperature 26 49 47244640282 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 15 592 (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 -27539330297694 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2925181994 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3992793563	57.8% Above average	Read 104 Write 97.2 Mixed 94.9 74% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.16 4K Mixed 0.51 100% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$42 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	76.7% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.4 MC Mixed 25.4 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 27.4 SC Mixed 22.7 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 72.9 55% 72.9 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 95%

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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-K - $299

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,131x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	554x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	364x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	345x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	271x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	232x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	199x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	87x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	67x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	98x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	76x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x

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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $897

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