Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 105% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 89% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 93.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	109% 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	60.1% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '17 at 11:28
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	0%

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PC Performing above expectations (71^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.9% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 129 2-Core 259 91% 161 Pts	4-Core 491 8-Core 731 76% 611 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 1B80) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.49 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 143 Reflection 148 Parallax 126 117% 139 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 139 Splatting 111 99% 122 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 189GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 765 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 228 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 70 57 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 30 (EB) Unknown 99 99 25 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2357325339	110% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 412 Mixed 417 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 38.7 4K Write 83.4 4K Mixed 45.5 161% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 355 DQ Write 281 DQ Mixed 119 143% 252 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
HyperX Fury 120GB-$160 11,403 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 52GB free (System drive) Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 8596409047 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 79207786873600 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 229 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 35 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 41 64427196443 (C2) HDA temperature 27 41 64427196443 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 8596409047 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 8596409047 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 8596409047 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 193273528320 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1654 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1361 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1361 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1400 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1966091	60.1% Good	Read 432 Write 123 Mixed 187 54% 247 MB/s	4K Read 30.4 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 10.5 115% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 24.6 DQ Write 105 DQ Mixed 12.6 25% 47.5 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 75%
Crucial BX200 960GB-$80 1,195 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 48GB free Firmware: MU01.6 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^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 64 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 217 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 116 (A3) Unknown 100 100 1147 (94) Unknown 100 100 30795 (95) Unknown 100 100 260 (96) Unknown 100 100 112 (97) Unknown 100 100 240 (A4) Unknown 100 100 14832 (A5) Unknown 100 100 18 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 35326594711576 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 86222 (F2) Unknown 100 100 41550 (F5) Unknown 100 100 175203 (F6) Unknown 100 100 123180 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	75.2% Very good	Read 495 Write 249 Mixed 270 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 28.1 4K Write 67.3 4K Mixed 23.5 108% 39.6 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 27.5 62% 126 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 100%
Kingston SSDNow V300 480GB-$250 15,510 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 45GB free Firmware: 608ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4209192 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -60730837564717 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 219 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 29 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 25 39 60132098073 (C2) HDA temperature 25 39 60132098073 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4209192 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4209192 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4209192 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 90194313216 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1475 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1122 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1122 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1152 (F4) Unknown 100 100 655363	58.3% Above average	Read 487 Write 240 Mixed 203 68% 310 MB/s	4K Read 25.5 4K Write 17.5 4K Mixed 13.7 65% 18.9 MB/s	DQ Read 130 DQ Write 85.5 DQ Mixed 44.6 50% 86.7 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 65%
Samsung Spinpoint F4 2TB-$119 45,158 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 502GB free Firmware: 1AQ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 76 43 7530 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 362 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4011 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 261 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1371336 (BF) G-sense error rate 64 64 364857 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 49 219044118552 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 79 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 363	82.4% Excellent	Read 137 Write 150 Mixed 120 102% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 2.53 4K Mixed 0.37 118% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 72%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	MC Read 37 MC Write 38.2 MC Mixed 31.1 101% 35.4 GB/s	SC Read 20.1 SC Write 41.1 SC Mixed 30.4 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 51.6 78% 51.6 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 104%

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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	3,889x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,379x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,318x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	809x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $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