Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 90.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.6% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S (all builds)
Memory	23.3 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 27 '16 at 10:16
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.4% Outstanding	Memory 91.4 1-Core 142 2-Core 272 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 481 8-Core 791 78% 636 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4998) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1582 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 375.95 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.6% Excellent	Lighting 116 Reflection 117 Parallax 106 95% 113 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 104 Splatting 93.1 80% 98 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron XT 480GB-$210 846 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 18GB free Firmware: SAFC01.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 20 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4091 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 45 (A2) Unknown 84 84 85899348128 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 589904 (AE) Unknown 100 100 20 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 20 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 2361 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8272	104% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 504 Mixed 510 114% 511 MB/s	4K Read 36.4 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 16.1 133% 53.7 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 16.5 99% 228 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 116%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 469GB free (System drive) Firmware: HP51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 123408856 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 158 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 155450698 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6324 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 138 (B4) Unknown 100 100 297689889 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 17180262409 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 65 454623259 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 36 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6229 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 55834574875 (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	87.3% Excellent	Read 148 Write 156 Mixed 174 121% 159 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.17 61% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.3% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	75.6% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 23.9 76% 26.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 24.5 68% 23.9 GB/s	Latency 65.1 61% 65.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 119%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	468x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	126x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	48x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	138x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	52x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	25x
BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 5,640 samples	20x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	19x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $664

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 $177	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