Asus Z170-P

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	89.4% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-P (all builds)
Memory	4.2 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151019
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Mar 20 '17 at 15:14
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	MLT-User
Background CPU	26%

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 i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	82.9% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 121 2-Core 232 85% 148 Pts	4-Core 394 8-Core 626 63% 510 Pts	64-Core 669 41% 669 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 82.9% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gainward(10B0 13C0) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1392 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	61.9% Good	Lighting 78.4 Reflection 81.7 Parallax 72.9 64% 77.7 fps	MRender 79 Gravity 71.8 Splatting 64.9 58% 71.9 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (29^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1239 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 248 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 72 58 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 21 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3474677584	89.4% Excellent	Read 508 Write 398 Mixed 407 97% 438 MB/s	4K Read 40.8 4K Write 76.9 4K Mixed 22.8 132% 46.8 MB/s	DQ Read 42.5 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 23 52% 102 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 115%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 351GB free Firmware: CC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 141282552 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 550 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 75918621 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2263 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 470 (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 74 54 453902362 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10101 (C2) HDA temperature 26 46 34359738394 (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 -24086176593972 (F1) Unknown 100 253 51588600104 (F2) Unknown 100 253 251146080951	96.5% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 154 Mixed 164 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.22 76% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2133 C15 2x4GB-$48 7,720 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2187 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	74.1% Very good	MC Read 28.3 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 21.5 75% 26.1 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 21.2 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 80%

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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 67%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 86%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-P - $119

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,136x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	920x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	524x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	548x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	535x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	290x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	195x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	162x
750 EVO 250GBSamsung $55Bench 94%, 75,831 samples	86x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	128x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	124x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	123x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $531

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 $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