Asrock Z170 OC Formula

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.3% 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	193% 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.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

4 years ago, 4 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z170 OC Formula (all builds)
Memory	9.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150923
Uptime	11 Days
Run Date	Aug 02 '19 at 02:45
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	33%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 85.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 263 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 468 65% 481 Pts	64-Core 496 31% 496 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 431.60 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 104 Parallax 101 91% 105 fps	MRender 90.9 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 86.3 75% 91.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 750 Series NVMe PCIe 400GB-$550 8,641 User benchmarks, average bench 186% 91GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0135 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 733 781 613 572 610 119 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	193% Outstanding	Read 913 Write 956 Mixed 655 SusWrite 572 174% 774 MB/s	4K Read 38.4 4K Write 190 4K Mixed 50.5 224% 93.1 MB/s	DQ Read 1,510 DQ Write 922 DQ Mixed 928 769% 1,120 MB/s
Poor: 123% ↑ This bench: 193% Great: 230%
Seagate Backup+ Desk 5TB 1,926 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 2TB free Firmware: 0511 SusWrite @10s intervals: 110 130 148 146 146 124 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	14.9% Very poor	Read 115 Write 117 Mixed 79 SusWrite 134 25% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 10.9 4K Mixed 0.4 7% 3.9 MB/s	DQ Read 1.1 DQ Write 6.9 DQ Mixed 2 2% 3.33 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 14.9% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3866 C18 4x4GB 230 User benchmarks, average bench 97% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66% Good	MC Read 23.3 MC Write 24.2 MC Mixed 21.3 66% 22.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 26.9 SC Mixed 21.8 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 71.8 56% 71.8 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 66% Great: 124%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Typical Z170 OC Formula Builds (Compare 100 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 86%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 90%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 73%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock Z170 OC Formula

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	54x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	14x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	8x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	12x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	11x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	6x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	5x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $94Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	5x
840 Evo 250GBSamsung $95Bench 96%, 217,115 samples	4x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	4x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GBCorsair $92Bench 85%, 8,498 samples	4x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x16GBCorsair $74Bench 76%, 29,684 samples	4x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,248

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	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