Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 62% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (86th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 14 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 85.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	88.8% 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	82.5% 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	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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	14.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 21 '17 at 05:26
Run Duration	152 Seconds
Run User	PAK-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.6% Excellent	Memory 90.5 1-Core 123 2-Core 238 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 466 62% 466 Pts	64-Core 464 29% 464 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 85.6% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3236) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	88.8% Excellent	Lighting 115 Reflection 116 Parallax 106 94% 112 fps	MRender 95.2 Gravity 103 Splatting 94.2 80% 97.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
KINGSTON 120GB 834 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 65GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3J Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd 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 8 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 8 (64) Unknown 100 100 50576 (65) Unknown 100 100 12128 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 4 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 29 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 667 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 100 146030329886 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 94 (EA) Unknown 100 100 71 (F1) Unknown 100 100 89 (F2) Unknown 100 100 37 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	82.5% Excellent	Read 480 Write 335 Mixed 321 84% 379 MB/s	4K Read 26.8 4K Write 86.4 4K Mixed 16.3 107% 43.2 MB/s	DQ Read 287 DQ Write 245 DQ Mixed 48 96% 193 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 85%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$24 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 465GB free Firmware: 15.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 140 133 3991 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1246 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6934 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1243 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 341 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 904 (C2) HDA temperature 113 86 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	69.4% Good	Read 117 Write 125 Mixed 122 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.38 105% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 69.4% Great: 69%
StoreJet Transcend 1TB 14,954 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 62GB free, PID 5106 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	25.6% Poor	Read 54.7 Write 57.2 Mixed 43.8 66% 51.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.24 66% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 25.6% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK8GX4M1A2400C14 Adata 16GB 12 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	78% Very good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 24.3 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 21.9 62% 21.8 GB/s	Latency 66.5 60% 66.5 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 78%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,379x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,319x
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 $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 $40Bench 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 $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