Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	129% 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	288% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	25.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	3.9 Days
Run Date	Jun 02 '17 at 14:30
Run Duration	174 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	9%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 92.5 1-Core 134 2-Core 253 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 703 71% 576 Pts	64-Core 715 44% 715 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Nvidia(10DE 120F) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	129% Outstanding	Lighting 180 Reflection 201 Parallax 174 146% 185 fps	MRender 128 Gravity 174 Splatting 125 115% 142 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 129% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 373GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2883 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 65 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 70 66 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 33 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5206314439	118% Outstanding	Read 498 Write 404 Mixed 419 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 43.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 53.1 189% 67.3 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 134 153% 264 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 338GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile)	288% Outstanding	Read 2,199 Write 1,676 Mixed 1,725 415% 1,867 MB/s	4K Read 47.7 4K Write 159 4K Mixed 70.3 247% 92.5 MB/s	DQ Read 547 DQ Write 412 DQ Mixed 198 224% 386 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 288% Great: 353%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 904GB free Firmware: 01.00A01 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 188 184 6566 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3243 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30521 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 538 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 300 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 175 175 77464 (C2) HDA temperature 118 110 29 (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	58.5% Above average	Read 105 Write 98.9 Mixed 98.2 76% 101 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.64 4K Mixed 0.31 87% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 58.5% Great: 57%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 483GB free Firmware: 05.01D05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 175 4166 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1485 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 59 59 30496 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 520 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 338 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1146 (C2) HDA temperature 116 108 31 (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	70.1% Very good	Read 118 Write 126 Mixed 118 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.4 132% 1.19 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 70.1% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK32GX4M4A2400C14 CMK32GX4M4A2400C14 CMK32GX4M4A2400C14 CMK8GX4M1A2400C14 32GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	80.1% Excellent	MC Read 27.8 MC Write 30.7 MC Mixed 25.5 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 32.8 SC Mixed 25.9 73% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 63.1 63% 63.1 ns
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 80.1% Great: 80%

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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	79x
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 $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