Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	107% 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	188% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 17 '17 at 17:47
Run Duration	265 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 129 2-Core 244 87% 154 Pts	4-Core 419 8-Core 623 65% 521 Pts	64-Core 714 44% 714 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.43 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 150 Parallax 139 114% 143 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 136 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 95GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	188% Outstanding	Read 2,115 Write 642 Mixed 1,189 288% 1,315 MB/s	4K Read 41.3 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 44.1 179% 66.3 MB/s	DQ Read 148 DQ Write 272 DQ Mixed 30.4 74% 150 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 188% Great: 283%
Seagate ST3500630AS 500GB-$102 29,256 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 425GB free Firmware: 3.AAK Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 97 74331982 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3049 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 397011945 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 32989 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2423 (BB) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 50 504496158 (C2) HDA temperature 30 50 47244640286 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 80 55 164114134 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 253 0	43.1% Average	Read 74.7 Write 75.3 Mixed 68.9 55% 73 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.68 4K Mixed 0.38 94% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 43.1% Great: 43%
Lexar JD Secure II + 4GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 4GB free, PID a732 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	5.37% Terrible	Read 19.6 Write 5.6 Mixed 8.85 12% 11.3 MB/s	4K Read 5.3 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.02 21% 1.78 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 5.37% Great: 9%

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 @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.1% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 23 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 28.2 SC Mixed 22.4 65% 22.7 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 103%

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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	3,911x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,397x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,331x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	817x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	740x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	604x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	558x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	553x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	382x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	301x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $657

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