Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 101% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	126% 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	107% 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	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	20.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 29 '16 at 23:38
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (41^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 286 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 788 79% 644 Pts	64-Core 786 49% 786 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 376.9 Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	126% Outstanding	Lighting 173 Reflection 194 Parallax 185 141% 184 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 167 Splatting 132 115% 141 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 126% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 702GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 628 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 71 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 65 63 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3058237440	107% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 407 Mixed 417 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 28.7 161% 58.7 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 289 DQ Mixed 28.7 101% 223 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 133%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 100 208805800 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 124 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10125390 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 626 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (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 64 59 605290532 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 5898 (C2) HDA temperature 36 41 77309411364 (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 53828825121138 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6173189618 (F2) Unknown 100 253 61518131858	64.2% Good	Read 118 Write 106 Mixed 107 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.82 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.2% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1563280 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 1718 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 624 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (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 64 61 605290532 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1091 (C2) HDA temperature 36 40 77309411364 (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 7632156885531 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3899 (F2) Unknown 100 253 99965	64.4% Good	Read 117 Write 107 Mixed 105 83% 110 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.15 77% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.4% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 100 90396240 (03) Spinup time 98 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 121 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 432721 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 624 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 68 (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 64 59 622067748 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1189 (C2) HDA temperature 36 41 77309411364 (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 -79654463471087 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1412840612 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39356329	62.7% Good	Read 110 Write 109 Mixed 107 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.2 82% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.7% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB 92,468 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing below potential (29^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	78.1% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 24.6 78% 27.4 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 29.6 SC Mixed 24.6 69% 24.2 GB/s	Latency 63 64% 63 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 114%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,380x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $45	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