Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 55% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (79th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 21 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 81.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86% 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	232% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
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	4.9 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 28 '17 at 19:16
Run Duration	177 Seconds
Run User	GRC-User
Background CPU	51%

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PC Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.8% Excellent	Memory 89.8 1-Core 105 2-Core 207 77% 134 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 428 57% 428 Pts	64-Core 424 26% 424 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2050 MHz, MLim: 2007 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86% Excellent	Lighting 108 Reflection 113 Parallax 99.8 88% 107 fps	MRender 95.9 Gravity 99.8 Splatting 101 81% 99 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 201GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	232% Outstanding	Read 2,618 Write 1,120 Mixed 1,333 370% 1,690 MB/s	4K Read 53.6 4K Write 117 4K Mixed 25.4 176% 65.3 MB/s	DQ Read 56 DQ Write 325 DQ Mixed 23.9 67% 135 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 232% Great: 236%
Samsung 750 EVO 120GB-$35 20,420 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 112GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2555 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 480 (B1) Unknown 52 52 239 (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 64 49 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9765984503	81.4% Excellent	Read 484 Write 264 Mixed 268 75% 339 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 55 4K Mixed 24.2 117% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 335 DQ Write 172 DQ Mixed 62.5 97% 190 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 81.4% Great: 110%
HGST Travelstar 7K1000 2.5" 1TB 546,982 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 131GB free Firmware: JB0OA3J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 124 124 90194313218 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1112 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 2606 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 627 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 39 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 78090 (C2) HDA temperature 181 181 201864249377 (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 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	64.8% Good	Read 125 Write 101 Mixed 96.9 81% 108 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.41 4K Mixed 0.19 44% 0.32 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 64.8% Great: 75%
SanDisk Ultra 124GB 3,905 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 49GB free, PID 5581 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	44.2% Average	Read 166 Write 63.4 Mixed 91.5 120% 107 MB/s	4K Read 7.22 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 1.26 121% 3.33 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 44.2% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 1x8GB 30,824 User benchmarks, average bench 37% 1 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	40.1% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 14.1 MC Mixed 11.1 38% 13.3 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 13.1 SC Mixed 11.4 34% 11.9 GB/s	Latency 67.5 59% 67.5 ns
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.1% Great: 42%

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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	3,887x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,378x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,318x
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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
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 $273	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 $15	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