Asus Z170-DELUXE

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Boot Drive	295% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170-DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 15 '17 at 01:03
Run Duration	269 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 146 2-Core 284 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 526 8-Core 806 82% 666 Pts	64-Core 815 50% 815 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.1% 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 4995) CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Relative performance n/a - benchmarks incomplete		Lighting 186 Reflection 105 Parallax 98.3 151% 130 fps	Gravity 93.8 Splatting 78.6 75% 86.2 fps
Poor: 70% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 634GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3863 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2550 (B1) Unknown 99 99 22 (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 75 54 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1036 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29541944603	122% Outstanding	Read 525 Write 497 Mixed 507 114% 510 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 123 4K Mixed 46.2 181% 69 MB/s	DQ Read 369 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 181 183% 295 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 124%
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$249 18,356 User benchmarks, average bench 279% 631GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile)	295% Outstanding	Read 2,315 Write 1,950 Mixed 1,842 453% 2,036 MB/s	4K Read 49.8 4K Write 166 4K Mixed 38.8 213% 85 MB/s	DQ Read 642 DQ Write 297 DQ Mixed 254 246% 398 MB/s
Poor: 168% ↑ This bench: 295% Great: 363%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 475GB free Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	235% Outstanding	Read 1,477 Write 1,274 Mixed 1,299 301% 1,350 MB/s	4K Read 52.5 4K Write 170 4K Mixed 60.8 248% 94.6 MB/s	DQ Read 608 DQ Write 405 DQ Mixed 234 248% 416 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 235% Great: 283%
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 121GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 525 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 155 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 7 (C2) HDA temperature 73 57 184684576795 (F1) Unknown 100 100 25652	76.2% Very good	Read 515 Write 351 Mixed 354 90% 406 MB/s	4K Read 31.3 4K Write 75.9 4K Mixed 9.8 100% 39 MB/s	DQ Read 36.2 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 9.36 45% 94.2 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 101%
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 94GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3704 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2476 (B1) Unknown 99 99 22 (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 74 53 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1001 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29284069390
Poor: 77% Great: 124%
Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 500GB 7,947 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 422GB free Firmware: PC4OC70E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 160 160 115964116994 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4182 (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 82 82 7885 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3568 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 357 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 44 44 560378 (C2) HDA temperature 211 211 188979478554 (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	56.2% Above average	Read 97.7 Write 98.2 Mixed 99.1 74% 98.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.13 4K Mixed 0.37 80% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 58%
Hitachi HTS725050A9A364 500GB 7,947 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 174GB free Firmware: PC4OC70E Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 164 164 111669149698 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4479 (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 82 82 8019 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3762 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 365 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 47 47 537423 (C2) HDA temperature 220 220 214749282329 (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	46.8% Average	Read 77.3 Write 85.9 Mixed 85.9 63% 83 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.01 4K Mixed 0.35 74% 0.59 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 46.8% Great: 58%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 162GB free Firmware: 0003SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 154223336 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3841 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 8652087043 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5404 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3257 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 131103 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 52 421003289 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 64 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 313 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 57 57 87794 (C2) HDA temperature 25 48 47244640281 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 42 154223336 (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 121904056765259 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2188550679 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1672896772 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	41.4% Average	Read 69.3 Write 75 Mixed 72.4 54% 72.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.87 4K Mixed 0.37 82% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 41.4% Great: 58%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$201 13,611 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	99% Outstanding	MC Read 36.5 MC Write 37.7 MC Mixed 31.2 100% 35.1 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 39 SC Mixed 28.5 84% 29.5 GB/s	Latency 51.9 77% 51.9 ns
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99% Great: 103%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-DELUXE - $319

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,021x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	117x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	114x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	106x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	49x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	53x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	49x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	24x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,567

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 $179	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