Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% Battle cruiser


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 87.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.9% 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	79.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Nov 02 '16 at 17:29
Run Duration	334 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

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-$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 way above expectations (89^th percentile)	87.1% Excellent	Memory 88.9 1-Core 132 2-Core 256 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 459 8-Core 746 74% 602 Pts	64-Core 748 46% 748 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 120 Parallax 109 91% 114 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 105 Splatting 86.5 78% 96.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 94GB free (System drive) Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 35 100 35 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 322 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 32 (A9) Unknown 100 100 32 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 22 (AE) Unknown 100 100 36 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 100 206158430241 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 4127 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2308 (F2) Unknown 253 253 2199	79.2% Very good	Read 500 Write 402 Mixed 437 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 27.3 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 5.5 104% 45.6 MB/s	DQ Read 25.9 DQ Write 254 DQ Mixed 5.43 44% 95.2 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 86%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 1.5TB free Firmware: FS2A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 10502 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 169 (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 99 99 712 (0A) Spinup retry count 103 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 169 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 5 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 582 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 231929020449 (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 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 549 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 292 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 58% Great: 109%
HGST Travelstar 5K1000 2.5" 1TB 129,581 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 904GB free Firmware: JA0OA560 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 166 166 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 322 (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 98 98 1049 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 322 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 10639 (C2) HDA temperature 250 250 197569413144 (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 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	42.9% Average	Read 76.4 Write 73.1 Mixed 66.7 54% 72.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.19 70% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 57%
SanDisk Cruzer Force 8GB 1,838 User benchmarks, average bench 10% 7GB free, PID 557d Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	12.4% Very poor	Read 34.2 Write 4.08 Mixed 10.2 15% 16.2 MB/s	4K Read 4.31 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 1.25 120% 2.46 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 12.4% Great: 13%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x4GB 745 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (28^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	76.8% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 28.9 MC Mixed 24 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 18.2 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 24.6 70% 24.6 GB/s	Latency 68.6 58% 68.6 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 76.8% Great: 123%

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Gaming 68%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	476x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	80x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	66x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	64x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	43x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	18x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	14x

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Total price: $546

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $178	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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