Asus Z170-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding SSD
Gaming 18% Surfboard	Desktop 60% Gunboat	Workstation 36% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.7%, this CPUs suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	9.15% is a very low 3D score (GTX 1070 = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
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	Windows 8.1 is the second most recent version of Windows but it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	6.8 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20150831
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '15 at 20:50
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	LTU-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Single core	Quad core	Multi core
Intel Core i5-6600-$204 20,308 User benchmarks, average bench 78% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.7% Excellent	SC Int 120 SC Float 125 SC Mixed 124 98% 123 Pts	QC Int 449 QC Float 460 QC Mixed 459 103% 456 Pts	MC Int 450 MC Float 466 MC Mixed 460 69% 458 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 88.7% Great: 87%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 59,225 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4300 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	9.15% Terrible	Lighting 23.1 Reflection 30.1 Parallax 24.3 7% 25.8 fps	MRender 22.4 Gravity 20.3 Splatting 36.5 10% 26.4 fps
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 9.15% Great: 10%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$72 55,719 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 677GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s NCQ 7200 RPM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 170 2266 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 312 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 391 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 79 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 298 (C2) HDA temperature 106 97 37 (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	88.1% Excellent	Read 166 Write 141 Mixed 155 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.16 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.26 126% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 105%
Maxtor 6Y160M0 164GB-$40 320 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 108GB free Firmware: YAR51HW0 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s SYSTEM 4KALIGNED S.M.A.R.T Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 204 203 11700 (04) Start/Stop count 251 251 5108 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (06) Read channel margin 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 247 229 43559 (09) Power-on hours count 146 146 9490 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 241 241 4850 (C0) Power-off retract count 253 253 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 253 253 52 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 253 252 2979 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 199 192 7 (C8) Write error rate 253 252 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 246 11 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 253 252 0 (CB) Run out cancel 253 252 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 253 252 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 253 252 0 (CF) Spin high current 253 252 0 (D0) Spin buzz 253 252 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 192 192 0 (63) Unknown 253 253 0 (64) Unknown 253 253 0 (65) Unknown 253 253 0	30.1% Below average	Read 51.4 Write 53.1 Mixed 50.7 39% 51.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.28 77% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 30.1% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial Ballistix Sport DDR4 2400 C16 2x4GB-$35 352 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 33.6 MC Mixed 25 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 19 SC Write 29.8 SC Mixed 24.3 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 83%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 65%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $139

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $359Bench 91%, 198,716 samples	6,355x
Core i5-6600KIntel $222Bench 89%, 111,329 samples	4,810x
Core i7-6700Intel $304Bench 79%, 60,225 samples	657x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $447Bench 100%, 265,250 samples	3,333x
GTX 1080Nvidia $538Bench 125%, 192,223 samples	1,731x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $300Bench 72%, 250,718 samples	1,585x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $80Bench 94%, 274,376 samples	2,297x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $137Bench 95%, 184,154 samples	1,509x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $200Bench 178%, 17,640 samples	363x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $183Bench 85%, 61,633 samples	1,268x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $173Bench 73%, 21,403 samples	750x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $195Bench 91%, 36,892 samples	705x

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Value: 85% - Excellent

Total price: $1,208

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i7-8700K $330	Nvidia GTX 1070 $447	Samsung 850 Evo 250GB $80
Intel Core i7-7700K $290	Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB $300	Samsung 850 Evo 500GB $137
AMD Ryzen 5 1600 $170	AMD RX 480 $350	Samsung 850 Pro 256GB $158

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $44	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $183	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $70
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $957	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $45
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $36	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $195	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $12