Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


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 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 87.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.5% 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	231% 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	12.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1600 x 900 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	1.8 Days
Run Date	Mar 25 '17 at 08:32
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	23%

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 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 way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.6% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 133 2-Core 265 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 726 72% 586 Pts	64-Core 729 45% 729 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 117 Parallax 106 90% 111 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 99 Splatting 90.4 78% 95.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 AHCI PCIe M.2 256GB-$223 7,621 User benchmarks, average bench 175% 163GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXW2500Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4133 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 604 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 110 (AE) Unknown 99 99 63 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 983 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 62 25 38 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 28176 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6317 (F2) Unknown 99 99 7266	231% Outstanding	Read 1,925 Write 1,178 Mixed 1,418 334% 1,507 MB/s	4K Read 43.9 4K Write 133 4K Mixed 51.3 203% 76 MB/s	DQ Read 553 DQ Write 352 DQ Mixed 217 225% 374 MB/s
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 231% Great: 220%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 57GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 860 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 132 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 78 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 52 206159413280 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (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 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2870713720 (F7) Unknown 100 100 89753974 (F8) Unknown 100 100 60735057 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1931 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	87.3% Excellent	Read 483 Write 324 Mixed 340 85% 383 MB/s	4K Read 27.9 4K Write 80.6 4K Mixed 27 120% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 45.9 96% 198 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 99%
Seagate ST4000NM0033-9ZM170 4TB 3,748 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 354GB free Firmware: SN04 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 63 53649632 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 668 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 470732486 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3379 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 362 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 61 43 15617458700327 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 742 (C2) HDA temperature 39 57 34359738407 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 8 53649632 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	70.8% Very good	Read 127 Write 120 Mixed 136 97% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.44 125% 1.2 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 105%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 4x4GB 11,542 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	73.2% Very good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 15.1 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 21.4 62% 21.6 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 99%

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Gaming 68%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	476x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	80x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	66x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	64x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	43x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	18x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	14x

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Value: 80% - Excellent

Total price: $546

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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