Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 85.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.5% 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	83.5% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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	24 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 25 '18 at 00:57
Run Duration	251 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

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PC Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.8% Excellent	Memory 86.5 1-Core 133 2-Core 250 87% 157 Pts	4-Core 458 8-Core 705 72% 582 Pts	64-Core 716 44% 716 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 85A0) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.5% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 114 Parallax 106 84% 108 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 97.2 Splatting 98 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 363GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10155 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 19 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 59 42 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48439129436	83.5% Excellent	Read 514 Write 350 Mixed 359 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 100 4K Mixed 21.5 131% 51.6 MB/s	DQ Read 36.5 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 21.5 32% 56.2 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 134%
Intel 335 Series 180GB-$169 2,872 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 59GB free Firmware: 335u Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 43868795995805 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 526 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 85 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 417857 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 417857 (F2) Unknown 100 100 967760 (F9) Unknown 100 100 16979	77% Very good	Read 482 Write 181 Mixed 241 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 36 4K Write 116 4K Mixed 21.9 144% 58 MB/s	DQ Read 28.6 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 74.7 68% 97.9 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 88%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 64 89881491 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 18 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 96773095 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 41832981473195 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (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 66 51 589430818 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 34 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15387 (C2) HDA temperature 34 49 90194313250 (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 96142842929503 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9180012774 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14014081549	91% Outstanding	Read 176 Write 141 Mixed 137 114% 151 MB/s	4K Read 0.77 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.28 102% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 96%
Seagate Desktop HDD 4TB (2013)-$52 67,711 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 725GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 64 47695247 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 18 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 111212578 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -37937446115413 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (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 66 52 572653602 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19198 (C2) HDA temperature 34 48 90194313250 (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 64699387355328 (F1) Unknown 100 253 13554472313 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16303737087	80.2% Excellent	Read 141 Write 138 Mixed 114 98% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 2.01 4K Mixed 0.25 96% 1 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 96%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 49GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 161 156 4933 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 10576 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 13 13 64234 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2725 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1179 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10562 (C2) HDA temperature 109 97 38 (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 6 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.9% Average	Read 76.9 Write 65.4 Mixed 58.6 50% 66.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.39 104% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 69%
WD My Passport 0830 2TB 2,661 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 2TB free, PID 0830 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	39.4% Below average	Read 91.5 Write 91.2 Mixed 72.6 108% 85.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.22 77% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 39.4% Great: 43%
WD My Passport 0741 2TB 1,643 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 1.5TB free, PID 0741 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	36.5% Below average	Read 82.7 Write 89.7 Mixed 70.1 104% 80.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.2 62% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 36.5% Great: 44%
WD My Book Essentials 2TB 1,714 User benchmarks, average bench 17% 590GB free, PID 1110 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Read 99,973 65,772% 99,973 MB/s
Poor: 9% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Aegis DDR4 2400 C15 2x16GB 1,808 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (39^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.7 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 22.6 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.6 SC Write 27.5 SC Mixed 19.4 61% 21.5 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 87%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,880x
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 $129Bench 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