Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (62nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 38 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 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.4% 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	86.3% 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	20GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 20GB 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 Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 20 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '17 at 18:23
Run Duration	224 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (62^nd 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-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 91.5 1-Core 150 2-Core 298 98% 180 Pts	4-Core 591 8-Core 590 79% 591 Pts	64-Core 591 37% 591 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Zotac(19DA 2424) ≥ 4GB CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2091 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 109 Reflection 121 Parallax 103 88% 111 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 101 Splatting 107 85% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 238GB free Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 2 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 19064 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 113 (B1) Unknown 85 85 854 (B3) Unknown 99 99 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 2 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 25 (BE) vendor-specific 71 46 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 199 199 25 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 23 (EB) Unknown 99 99 53 (F1) Unknown 99 99 46439857031	121% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 498 Mixed 514 114% 512 MB/s	4K Read 37.8 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 45.4 176% 65.9 MB/s	DQ Read 368 DQ Write 325 DQ Mixed 162 172% 285 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 124%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10731 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3232 (B1) Unknown 89 89 122 (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 68 48 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 233 (F1) Unknown 99 99 60393291685	86.3% Excellent	Read 507 Write 348 Mixed 352 89% 403 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 74.7 4K Mixed 22 133% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 45.2 DQ Write 229 DQ Mixed 81.2 79% 118 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 118%
Samsung 750 EVO 250GB-$55 75,831 User benchmarks, average bench 94% 48GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2558 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 670 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 68 47 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 77 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2781586274	88.6% Excellent	Read 491 Write 274 Mixed 280 77% 348 MB/s	4K Read 42.4 4K Write 64.3 4K Mixed 29.8 137% 45.5 MB/s	DQ Read 336 DQ Write 175 DQ Mixed 70.7 102% 194 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 256GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199105528 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5134 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4334453879 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13651 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4548 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 71 52 488243229 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 800 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46746 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 73014444061 (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 -66361539680072 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21037402501 (F2) Unknown 100 253 36597367066	62.2% Good	Read 110 Write 107 Mixed 104 80% 107 MB/s	4K Read 0.88 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.35 101% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 112%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 118GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (78^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 171 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 627 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2399 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 616 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2886 (C2) HDA temperature 111 99 32 (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 200 196 2887 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	97.7% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 162 Mixed 154 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 1.38 4K Write 2.68 4K Mixed 0.37 148% 1.48 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 97.7% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14D4/8G Corsair CMV4GX4M1A2133C15 KHX2133C14D4/8G 20GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	72.3% Very good	MC Read 23.3 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 24.6 72% 25.3 GB/s	SC Read 16.5 SC Write 27.9 SC Mixed 23.3 64% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 72%

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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	3,882x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	299x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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