Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 42% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	75.2% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	4.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151109
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '17 at 16:33
Run Duration	169 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 106 2-Core 256 84% 151 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 353 54% 389 Pts	64-Core 468 29% 468 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% Sapphire(174B E324) CLim: 1080 MHz, MLim: 1500 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.2% Good	Lighting 75.5 Reflection 63.9 Parallax 87.3 62% 75.6 fps	MRender 64.1 Gravity 61.6 Splatting 81 58% 68.9 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 60.2% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 142GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	75.2% Very good	Read 198 Write 178 Mixed 554 70% 310 MB/s	4K Read 29.4 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 37.7 166% 68.2 MB/s	DQ Read 32.5 DQ Write 252 DQ Mixed 96.9 88% 127 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 75.2% Great: 157%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$31 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 752GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 63 122714631 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1043 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 82 60 173379787 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5208 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 945 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 59 454623259 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1097 (C2) HDA temperature 27 6 25769803803 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 4 1 122714631 (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 44474386355219 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24428502718 (F2) Unknown 100 253 38516805317	91.9% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 153 Mixed 153 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 0.27 80% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 112%
HGST Travelstar 5K1000 2.5" 1TB 129,581 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 431GB free Firmware: JA0OA710 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 166 100 77309411329 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 4526 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 82 82 8312 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 4183 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 98 60129542147 (BC) Unknown 100 99 21475885122 (BE) vendor-specific 77 49 337248279 (BF) G-sense error rate 97 97 914 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 22348117 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 80 80 209173 (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 100 100 1 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 99 0	49.4% Average	Read 86.4 Write 85.7 Mixed 84.5 64% 85.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.16 62% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 20% ↑ This bench: 49.4% Great: 57%
Toshiba MQ01ABD075 750GB-$40 42,694 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 406GB free Firmware: AX003M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1721 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4139 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 6463 (0A) Spinup retry count 182 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3031 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 442 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 298 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 42670 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 236223725592 (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 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 92 92 3211 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 255 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	57.2% Above average	Read 99.6 Write 99.8 Mixed 93.6 74% 97.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.22 70% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 57.2% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x4GB-$47 29,751 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.2% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 23.7 74% 25.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 26.3 SC Mixed 21.1 61% 21.4 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 98%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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 $94Bench 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 $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