Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 124% UFO	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 98% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 95.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	128% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	69.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20150818
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 16 '17 at 17:05
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95.8% Outstanding	Memory 95 1-Core 140 2-Core 281 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 558 8-Core 557 75% 557 Pts	64-Core 558 34% 558 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 3752) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing below potential (72^nd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	128% Outstanding	Lighting 172 Reflection 213 Parallax 212 140% 199 fps	MRender 135 Gravity 188 Splatting 131 123% 152 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 128% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 115GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2562 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 450 (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 69 49 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 38 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3767348287	120% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 414 Mixed 422 100% 451 MB/s	4K Read 50.5 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 43.6 200% 74 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 106 137% 248 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 134%
Sandis SP128G 128GB 47 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: X230 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 8335 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1560 (A6) Unknown 100 100 54 (A7) Unknown 100 100 19 (A8) Unknown 100 100 292 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 168 (AE) Unknown 100 100 158 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 41 176094511135 (D4) Unknown 100 100 2 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1340 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 22014 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7468 (F2) Unknown 253 253 8444 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	69.5% Good	Read 437 Write 99.4 Mixed 149 49% 229 MB/s	4K Read 34.7 4K Write 93.8 4K Mixed 20.4 128% 49.6 MB/s	DQ Read 252 DQ Write 138 DQ Mixed 29.1 66% 140 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 83%
Barracuda XT 4TB 539 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 184GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 120488759 (03) Spinup time 97 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22547 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 92 60 1767072711 (09) Power-on hours count 100 89 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 96 100 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 1 21475164492 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 66 31 -32224567623646 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 94 94 13316 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 22642 (C2) HDA temperature 34 69 -140737488355294 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 4 120488759 (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 78593606559573 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20226439486 (F2) Unknown 100 253 24793722836	71.5% Very good	Read 119 Write 130 Mixed 115 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 1.63 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.58 169% 1.39 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 71.5% Great: 101%
WD WD7500AZEX-00RKK 750GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 53GB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 171 2308 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3201 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8454 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1556 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 163 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 3037 (C2) HDA temperature 113 97 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	84.6% Excellent	Read 153 Write 142 Mixed 109 100% 135 MB/s	4K Read 0.39 4K Write 2.81 4K Mixed 0.29 101% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 85%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 2800 C16 Series 2x8GB 737 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2747 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	96.5% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 31.6 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 20.8 SC Write 37.6 SC Mixed 28.9 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 57 70% 57 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 96.5% Great: 98%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	643x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	427x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	126x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	124x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	80x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $464

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