Asus Z170-DELUXE

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 96.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.3% 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	94.5% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160627
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 07 '17 at 18:25
Run Duration	302 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (55^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	Memory 95.9 1-Core 134 2-Core 268 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 529 8-Core 746 80% 637 Pts	64-Core 745 46% 745 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.3% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 112 Parallax 101 90% 108 fps	MRender 92.6 Gravity 98.6 Splatting 80.3 73% 90.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Corsair Neutron XT 480GB-$210 846 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 349GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFC01.5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2468 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1132 (A2) Unknown 99 99 4294969502 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2293875 (AE) Unknown 100 100 267 (B5) Unknown 100 100 1 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 267 (C2) HDA temperature 70 70 128850919454 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (F1) Unknown 100 100 14400 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7448	94.5% Outstanding	Read 503 Write 487 Mixed 511 112% 501 MB/s	4K Read 31.9 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 15.7 128% 53.2 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 334 DQ Mixed 12.8 60% 126 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 116%
Hitachi HDS724040ALE640 4TB-$465 6,270 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 351GB free Firmware: MJAOA580 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 137 137 79 (03) Spinup time 148 148 51580371369 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2007 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 121 121 34 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5394 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1445 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4224 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4224 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 257699086371 (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	83.3% Excellent	Read 152 Write 138 Mixed 143 109% 144 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.21 96% 0.95 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 91%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 91GB free Firmware: CC3C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 3264 (03) Spinup time 93 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7175 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 61 60 25777289827 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20255 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4151 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 96 125 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 52 4900519968 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 570 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8021 (C2) HDA temperature 32 48 -140737488355296 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 20 3 3264 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -95034741352204 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3042466750 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3995481439	57.1% Above average	Read 96.1 Write 103 Mixed 82.8 70% 94 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.46 101% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 75%
WD Green 2TB (2012)-$49 170,877 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 158GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 177 171 4116 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2264 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4891 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2105 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 385 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 120 120 240872 (C2) HDA temperature 118 111 29 (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	47.2% Average	Read 84.3 Write 79.9 Mixed 76.1 60% 80.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.24 86% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 84%
Seagate ST2000NP0011 2TB 671 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 20GB free Firmware: PP0D Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 63 87846319 (03) Spinup time 90 88 3 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1099511628662 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3298551660544 (07) Seek error rate 89 66 893450591 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 20130 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 86861435371520 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 792 (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 68 62 605421600 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 90 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1625 (C2) HDA temperature 32 40 68719476768 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 115 99 87846319 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 -16711680 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 -16711680 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 0	43.7% Average	Read 79.6 Write 72.4 Mixed 73.5 57% 75.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.51 110% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 43.7% Great: 86%
WD My Passport 083C 996GB 248 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 211GB free, PID 083c Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	15.7% Very poor	Read 40.9 Write 39 Mixed 25.8 44% 35.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 0.37 4K Mixed 0.26 24% 0.39 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 15.7% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 4x4GB 1,307 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	MC Read 33.8 MC Write 34.8 MC Mixed 28.4 92% 32.3 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 37.5 SC Mixed 28.9 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 54.2 74% 54.2 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 99%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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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 $230Bench 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 $94Bench 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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Total price: $1,567

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