Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 49% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (77th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 23 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 91.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	58.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	115% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Apr 13 '17 at 09:58
Run Duration	389 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (77^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 (99^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 134 2-Core 260 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 466 8-Core 746 74% 606 Pts	64-Core 746 46% 746 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% EVGA(3842 3978) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	58.7% Above average	Lighting 74.4 Reflection 74.6 Parallax 66.3 61% 71.8 fps	MRender 76.2 Gravity 68.7 Splatting 60 55% 68.3 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 58.7% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 148GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2651 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 389 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 61 51 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 35 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5805064948	115% Outstanding	Read 495 Write 402 Mixed 414 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 42.2 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 48.8 182% 65.4 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 275 DQ Mixed 118 145% 259 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 124%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$106 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 100 149307472 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 92 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 730277 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 199 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 28 (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 64 59 639041572 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 481 (C2) HDA temperature 36 41 81604378660 (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 -19593640804237 (F1) Unknown 100 253 890127037 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4594876531	92.6% Outstanding	Read 128 Write 194 Mixed 144 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.76 4K Write 5.26 4K Mixed 0.81 219% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 110%
Seagate ST3750528AS 750GB-$65 22,230 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 698GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 110874860 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1492 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 412707204502 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 27075 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1492 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032842 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 67 53 555089953 (C2) HDA temperature 33 47 55834574881 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 33 110874860 (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 -25357486885226 (F1) Unknown 100 253 429326104 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3765417836	59.8% Above average	Read 107 Write 101 Mixed 96.5 76% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.57 111% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 59.8% Great: 65%
Toshiba MQ01ABF050 500GB-$32 118,349 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 465GB free Firmware: 0104 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61.4% Good	Read 106 Write 108 Mixed 98 78% 104 MB/s	4K Read 0.45 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.17 69% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 60%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 500GB-$49 47,332 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 378GB free Firmware: 0002SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 32154237 (03) Spinup time 100 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7964 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 68 60 6991099 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7586 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4658 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 35 77747060762 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 45 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 68904 (C2) HDA temperature 26 65 8589934618 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 51 46 32154237 (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 24545738097572 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3337258602 (F2) Unknown 100 253 387197078 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	52.3% Above average	Read 89.7 Write 92.8 Mixed 81.8 66% 88.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.37 80% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 52.3% Great: 58%
Inateck 250GB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 111% 233GB free, PID 5136 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	38.7% Below average	Read 97.5 Write 94.9 Mixed 75.1 113% 89.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.22 4K Mixed 0.42 58% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 38.7% Great: 247%
SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB 33,521 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 15GB free, PID 5575 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	8.73% Terrible	Read 21.7 Write 5.74 Mixed 6.97 12% 11.5 MB/s	4K Read 4.82 4K Write 1.04 4K Mixed 1.24 96% 2.37 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 8.73% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 1x16GB 11,534 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	58.4% Above average	MC Read 21.6 MC Write 19.8 MC Mixed 15.9 55% 19.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 21 57% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 51.5 78% 51.5 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 64%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,906x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,392x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,329x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	816x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	740x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	604x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	553x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	381x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	300x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16