Asrock Z170 Pro4S

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 16% Surfboard


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 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 96.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.37% 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	101% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (36%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asrock Z170 Pro4S (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1366 x 768 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160413
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 02 '16 at 01:52
Run Duration	128 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	36%

PC Performing above expectations (84^th 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.6% Outstanding	Memory 97 1-Core 133 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 520 8-Core 735 79% 628 Pts	64-Core 740 46% 740 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.6% Great: 90%

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. 20.19.15.4380 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.37% Terrible	Lighting 7.7 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 7.72 6% 8.99 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 6.8 Splatting 15.9 10% 11 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.37% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC480G1CS2754D117-533 480GB 368 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 228GB free (System drive) Firmware: CS211101 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 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 298 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 260 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 19 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 100 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 640 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 104 (E7) Temperature 100 100 40 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 7 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2081 (F2) Unknown 0 0 3419	101% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 429 Mixed 460 104% 468 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 34.2 138% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 280 DQ Write 287 DQ Mixed 70.8 112% 212 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 107%
Toshiba MK2035GSS 200GB-$285 1,108 User benchmarks, average bench 16% 63GB free Firmware: DK022A Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1086 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 5396 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 9469 (0A) Spinup retry count 207 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 5351 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 94 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 101284 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 240519020575 (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 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 156 (DE) Loaded hours 79 79 8466 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 303 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	15.8% Very poor	Read 24.4 Write 30.6 Mixed 29.5 21% 28.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.32 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.28 62% 0.52 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 15.8% Great: 21%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 5,376 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 40.6 MC Write 40.2 MC Mixed 30.3 106% 37 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 45.8 SC Mixed 34.2 98% 34.4 GB/s	Latency 50.2 80% 50.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 111%

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Gaming 50%

Yacht

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 43%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asrock Z170 Pro4S - $130

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	256x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	223x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	124x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	117x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	98x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	71x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	32x
980 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $90Bench 251%, 262,559 samples	19x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	18x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	37x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	24x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	19x

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Value: 86% - Excellent

Total price: $557

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	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 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16