Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 94% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	109% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	242% 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	10.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 11 '18 at 18:35
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	27%

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PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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-$163 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 91 1-Core 133 2-Core 256 90% 160 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 652 66% 536 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 145 Reflection 155 Parallax 130 118% 143 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 138 Splatting 108 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$330 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 253GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile)	242% Outstanding	Read 2,111 Write 1,194 Mixed 1,297 338% 1,534 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 165 4K Mixed 56.1 219% 86.9 MB/s	DQ Read 566 DQ Write 231 DQ Mixed 220 210% 339 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 242% Great: 283%
Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164 8TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3.5TB free Firmware: 83.H0A83 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 146 146 56 (03) Spinup time 142 142 38685049295 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3036 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3665 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 480 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4312 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4312 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 227634446375 (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 3	76.5% Very good	Read 136 Write 131 Mixed 128 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.42 109% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.5% Great: 99%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 4TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 72 64 14574480 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1475 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 52 34517490709 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 48855252997803 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 697 (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 65 50 605421603 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 410 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16295 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 68719476771 (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 -4449586113832 (F1) Unknown 100 253 38017167398 (F2) Unknown 100 253 49336642567	91.9% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 150 Mixed 135 114% 152 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	65.2% Good	MC Read 24.2 MC Write 24 MC Mixed 20 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.2 SC Write 23.2 SC Mixed 20 57% 19.8 GB/s	Latency 65.8 61% 65.8 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 65.2% Great: 114%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	661x
Core i5-6600KIntel $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	439x
Core i7-6700Intel $163Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	225x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	129x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	90x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	81x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $38Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	71x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $583

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Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $353