Asus Z170-K

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 50% Yacht


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 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 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	64.6% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	112% 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.

High background CPU (21%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-K (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170208
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 20 '17 at 18:45
Run Duration	209 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	21%

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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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 84.7 1-Core 141 2-Core 256 89% 161 Pts	4-Core 377 8-Core 716 65% 546 Pts	64-Core 769 48% 769 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85AC) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2052 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	64.6% Good	Lighting 82.4 Reflection 80.2 Parallax 70.6 67% 77.7 fps	MRender 73.7 Gravity 74.7 Splatting 71.1 60% 73.2 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 64.6% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 247GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 440 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 153 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 71 65 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 32 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4095479422	112% Outstanding	Read 513 Write 399 Mixed 415 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 89.8 4K Mixed 47.2 172% 59.8 MB/s	DQ Read 371 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 114 143% 255 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 134%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (39^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 107877992 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1877 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 4379788899 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12271 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1345 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8590065675 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 76 47 404160536 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 828 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19014 (C2) HDA temperature 24 53 55834574872 (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 -122217589367189 (F1) Unknown 100 253 30592100135 (F2) Unknown 100 253 43348309763	85% Excellent	Read 151 Write 145 Mixed 140 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.34 101% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 85% Great: 114%
Seagate ST32000542AS 2TB-$100 19,960 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 826GB free Firmware: CC95 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 210326692 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 37 37 65535 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13098443 (09) Power-on hours count 52 52 42529 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 450 (B7) Unknown 96 96 4 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 8 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 76 40 1383383629848 (C2) HDA temperature 24 60 51539607576 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 21 210326692 (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 108228880904844 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21093747 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4030234083	47% Average	Read 96.7 Write 67.1 Mixed 73 59% 78.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.43 4K Mixed 0.47 101% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 61%
Seagate Momentus XT SSHD 2.5" 500GB-$35 11,469 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 174GB free Firmware: SD28 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 91 106267634 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1925 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 504761983 (09) Power-on hours count 68 68 28844 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1564 (B8) Unknown 96 96 4 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 305 (BC) Unknown 100 253 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 44 17567186967 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 620 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 49 49 102832 (C2) HDA temperature 23 56 60129542167 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 32 106267634 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	47.6% Average	Read 85.6 Write 80.4 Mixed 76.9 61% 81 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.33 77% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 58%
WD My Passport 0827 2TB 4,635 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 585GB free, PID 0827 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	43.2% Average	Read 104 Write 105 Mixed 91.6 128% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.22 65% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 43.2% Great: 43%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C16 2x8GB-$42 105,447 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	71.9% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 27.9 MC Mixed 22.9 74% 25.7 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 25.4 SC Mixed 19.6 59% 20.6 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 88%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-K - $299

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,111x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	546x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	357x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	340x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	270x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	226x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	198x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	84x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	67x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	96x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	76x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	67x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $754

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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