ASRock FATAL1TY Z170 GAMING K4

Performance Results


Gaming 14% Tree trunk	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 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 81.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.42% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	111% 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	16GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's more than sufficient for nearly all games. 16GB also allows for very large file and system caches, software development and batch photo editing/processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	ASRock FATAL1TY Z170 GAMING K4 (all builds)
Memory	5.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	Χρώματα 2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161020
Uptime	10.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 11 '17 at 19:12
Run Duration	303 Seconds
Run User	CYP-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (59^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.6% Excellent	Memory 83.2 1-Core 125 2-Core 244 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 461 8-Core 466 62% 464 Pts	64-Core 466 29% 466 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% ASRock(1849 1912) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4815 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.42% Terrible	Lighting 7.73 Reflection 11.3 Parallax 7.78 6% 8.95 fps	MRender 11 Gravity 7.03 Splatting 15.6 10% 11.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.42% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 90GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	111% Outstanding	Read 1,253 Write 539 Mixed 781 188% 858 MB/s	4K Read 18.5 4K Write 70.9 4K Mixed 17.2 88% 35.5 MB/s	DQ Read 20.8 DQ Write 72.8 DQ Mixed 79.4 51% 57.7 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 157%
Kingston SSDNow V300 60GB-$76 24,219 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 54GB free Firmware: 527ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 3165323 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 28673201679283 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6159 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 892 (B1) Unknown 0 0 3 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 28 45 38657654812 (C2) HDA temperature 28 45 38657654812 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3165323 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3165323 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3165323 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 9929 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14242 (F1) Unknown 0 0 14242 (F2) Unknown 0 0 13459	46.2% Average	Read 415 Write 71.2 Mixed 110 43% 199 MB/s	4K Read 18.2 4K Write 63 4K Mixed 11.3 75% 30.8 MB/s	DQ Read 83.4 DQ Write 71.7 DQ Mixed 9.2 26% 54.8 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 46.2% Great: 69%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 672GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 29528304 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1951 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 64 60 3007003 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2204 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 747 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 72 59 471138332 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3867 (C2) HDA temperature 28 41 68719476764 (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 43701292237796 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2971751993 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41970308576	80.4% Excellent	Read 103 Write 176 Mixed 117 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.44 174% 2.13 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 112%
Generic- Multi-Card 2GB 60 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 2GB free, PID null Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	4.88% Terrible	Read 19.3 Write 6.06 Mixed 7.54 12% 11 MB/s	4K Read 2.97 4K Write 0.02 4K Mixed 0.19 18% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 4.88% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2800 C16 4x4GB-$130 1,513 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (16^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.5% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 28.1 MC Mixed 22.1 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.6 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 24.3 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 74.8 54% 74.8 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 72.5% Great: 120%

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Desktop 83%

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Workstation 50%

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Motherboard: ASRock FATAL1TY Z170 GAMING K4 - $300

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	337x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	297x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	169x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	108x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	68x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	22x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	42x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	41x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	34x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $653

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