Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 90% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 78% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 98.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	88.1% 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	269% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	May 30 '17 at 06:35
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (76^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.5% Outstanding	Memory 95.6 1-Core 144 2-Core 281 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 546 8-Core 801 84% 673 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.5% 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: 1555 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 119 Parallax 108 92% 113 fps	MRender 97.9 Gravity 104 Splatting 91.8 80% 97.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Pro NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$139 63,520 User benchmarks, average bench 266% 271GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B6QCXP7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	269% Outstanding	Read 2,103 Write 1,701 Mixed 1,691 408% 1,832 MB/s	4K Read 33 4K Write 88.2 4K Mixed 60.1 174% 60.4 MB/s	DQ Read 615 DQ Write 560 DQ Mixed 290 299% 488 MB/s
Poor: 159% ↑ This bench: 269% Great: 353%
SanDisk Extreme II 240GB-$110 3,009 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 154GB free Firmware: R1311 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 9186 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1152 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 22 (A8) Unknown 100 100 59 (A9) Unknown 100 100 372 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 16 (AE) Unknown 100 100 53 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 76 122 523986337816 (D4) Unknown 100 100 84 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 53 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 3853 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2162 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6254 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	103% Outstanding	Read 475 Write 478 Mixed 453 105% 469 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 26.1 136% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 373 DQ Write 305 DQ Mixed 68.7 125% 249 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 109%
SanDisk Extreme 240GB-$200 7,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 151GB free Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 118 172210560 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 58669253276041 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1562 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 64 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 23 31 25771835415 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 172210560 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 172210560 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 172210560 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 1749 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1679 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1679 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9313	75.8% Very good	Read 505 Write 255 Mixed 309 78% 356 MB/s	4K Read 24.4 4K Write 79.5 4K Mixed 15.1 98% 39.7 MB/s	DQ Read 289 DQ Write 230 DQ Mixed 55.1 97% 191 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 91%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 172GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 170 2325 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 941 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7775 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 940 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 897 (C2) HDA temperature 117 111 26 (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	94.2% Outstanding	Read 196 Write 132 Mixed 136 116% 155 MB/s	4K Read 0.65 4K Write 2.37 4K Mixed 0.3 105% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 94.2% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	MC Read 31.2 MC Write 30.7 MC Mixed 23 81% 28.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 30.9 SC Mixed 25.6 73% 25.5 GB/s	Latency 55.3 72% 55.3 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 88%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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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 $178	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