Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 69.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	93.2% 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	123% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (54%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	54.1 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 19 '21 at 18:57
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	54%

PC Performing below expectations (34^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 below expectations (6^th percentile)	69.9% Good	Memory 67.7 1-Core 118 2-Core 193 71% 126 Pts	4-Core 388 8-Core 564 60% 476 Pts	64-Core 645 40% 645 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Zotac(19DA 1396) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1607 MHz, MLim: 1805 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 497.09 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Lighting 119 Reflection 126 Parallax 112 97% 119 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 110 Splatting 100 86% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Blue SN550 NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$74 180,890 User benchmarks, average bench 228% 443GB free (System drive) Firmware: 211210WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 476 608 454 478 489 427 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 1,027 Write 878 Mixed 509 SusWrite 489 162% 726 MB/s	4K Read 25.8 4K Write 40.5 4K Mixed 33.1 103% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 819 DQ Write 74.9 DQ Mixed 146 182% 346 MB/s
Poor: 164% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 276%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 428GB free Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 388 783 719 696 773 836 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	148% Outstanding	Read 1,134 Write 797 Mixed 614 SusWrite 699 181% 811 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 38.8 4K Mixed 34.5 123% 37.3 MB/s	DQ Read 947 DQ Write 68.6 DQ Mixed 155 202% 390 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 148% Great: 283%
WD Blue 2TB (2015)-$61 253,816 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 584GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 83 94 97 86 89 97 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	50.1% Above average	Read 83.2 Write 87.3 Mixed 57.4 SusWrite 91.2 59% 79.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 0.9 168% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50.1% Great: 84%
VendorCo ProductCode 2GB 580 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 2GB free, PID 5678 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 15 18 19 18 19 19 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	7.6% Terrible	Read 21.6 Write 17.7 Mixed 9 SusWrite 18.1 22% 16.6 MB/s	4K Read 2.2 4K Write 0 4K Mixed 0 8% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.6% Great: 7%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-2400 4x16GB 59 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	69.9% Good	MC Read 24.8 MC Write 28.6 MC Mixed 22.7 72% 25.4 GB/s	SC Read 11.5 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 22.3 60% 20.8 GB/s	Latency 107 37% 107 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.9% Great: 117%

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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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Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 8,714 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,892x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,381x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	637x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	811x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	229x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	550x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 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 $269	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 $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