Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 106% UFO	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 99.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	91% 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	287% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	45 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Oct 10 '17 at 08:03
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.3% Outstanding	Memory 93.6 1-Core 153 2-Core 306 100% 184 Pts	4-Core 605 8-Core 608 81% 606 Pts	64-Core 564 35% 564 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 99.3% Great: 85%

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: 2062 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 121 Parallax 102 95% 113 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 101 Splatting 103 83% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 367GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	287% Outstanding	Read 2,836 Write 1,408 Mixed 1,407 413% 1,884 MB/s	4K Read 61.5 4K Write 121 4K Mixed 52.8 225% 78.3 MB/s	DQ Read 638 DQ Write 233 DQ Mixed 153 187% 341 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 287% Great: 254%
PNY CS1311 120GB-$63 12,393 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 90GB free Firmware: CS131122 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3241 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1404 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 69 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1900603 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 498 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850984990 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 98 (F1) Unknown 100 100 3307	80.8% Excellent	Read 517 Write 337 Mixed 347 89% 400 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 66.7 4K Mixed 10.1 98% 36.6 MB/s	DQ Read 319 DQ Write 218 DQ Mixed 43.5 93% 193 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 91%
Seagate Momentus XT 7200 RPM 2.5" 750GB-$55 8,365 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 690GB free Firmware: SM12 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20248640 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4343 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 26158963727 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12006 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7384 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 36 58721196965911 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 778 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 322697 (C2) HDA temperature 23 64 -140737488355305 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 35 23 20248640 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	55.6% Above average	Read 95.8 Write 97.8 Mixed 96.5 73% 96.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.38 4K Mixed 0.21 80% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 63%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 CMK32GX4M2A2666C16 48GB 17 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2728, 2728, 2728, 2728 MHz 8192, 8192, 16384, 16384 MB Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	96.6% Outstanding	MC Read 34.2 MC Write 36.7 MC Mixed 32.3 98% 34.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.7 SC Write 38.6 SC Mixed 29.7 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 60.8 66% 60.8 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 96%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,905x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,390x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,329x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	815x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	602x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	552x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	381x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	300x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $660

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16