Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 94.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	81% 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	69.3% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Sep 18 '17 at 04:36
Run Duration	175 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing as expected (58^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 above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.3 1-Core 134 2-Core 266 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 497 8-Core 741 77% 619 Pts	64-Core 733 45% 733 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (66^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 110 Parallax 94.8 82% 102 fps	MRender 96.1 Gravity 93.2 Splatting 97.9 79% 95.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 81% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 81GB free Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile)	141% Outstanding	Read 1,431 Write 733 Mixed 961 230% 1,042 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 52.3 4K Mixed 33.7 115% 38.3 MB/s	DQ Read 33.1 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 19.5 31% 56.3 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 141% Great: 243%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 63GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 129 100 129 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 776 (A6) Unknown 100 100 58 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 110 (A9) Unknown 100 100 18 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 90 (AE) Unknown 100 100 77 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 100 219043332132 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 11147 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2346 (F2) Unknown 253 253 6779	75.7% Very good	Read 499 Write 404 Mixed 441 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 54.7 4K Mixed 5.55 72% 28 MB/s	DQ Read 197 DQ Write 303 DQ Mixed 5.14 73% 168 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 78%
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 30GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8708 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1551 (B1) Unknown 87 87 156 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 65 37 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 249 (F1) Unknown 99 99 28803580719	69.3% Good	Read 484 Write 337 Mixed 335 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 34.8 4K Mixed 13.9 80% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 32.9 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 13.8 46% 94.5 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 108%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 545GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 168 2325 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2149 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 10131 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1973 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 220 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1928 (C2) HDA temperature 112 88 31 (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 2 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	78.1% Very good	Read 129 Write 143 Mixed 113 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 2.45 4K Mixed 0.26 95% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 78.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.9 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 31.6 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.6 SC Write 41.4 SC Mixed 30.9 89% 31.3 GB/s	Latency 52.9 76% 52.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%

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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	3,890x
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	809x
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 $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