Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 75% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	97.9% 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	63.4% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Sep 22 '17 at 07:03
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	3%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^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 4.25 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 94 1-Core 140 2-Core 280 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 548 8-Core 553 74% 551 Pts	64-Core 547 34% 547 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6276) CLim: 2151 MHz, MLim: 2252 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.9% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 126 Parallax 108 102% 120 fps	MRender 109 Gravity 109 Splatting 110 90% 109 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 50GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z32070RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 2563 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 546 (A5) Unknown 100 100 3655079560103 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 30 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 9 (AE) Unknown 100 100 28 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 55 49 219043332141 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1335743283511 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1086 (EA) Unknown 100 100 4385 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2214 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7851 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	63.4% Good	Read 507 Write 156 Mixed 142 58% 268 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 95.8 4K Mixed 4.67 94% 41.8 MB/s	DQ Read 112 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 7.09 53% 119 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 78%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 536GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 199882888 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 738 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 70 60 11892623 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2810 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 544 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 196611 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 64 504692765 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 10957 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 73014444061 (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 40600325850945 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3607021127 (F2) Unknown 100 253 33868570823	92.1% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 148 Mixed 160 121% 160 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.88 4K Mixed 0.17 82% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 4x4GB-$90 9,857 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 32.9 MC Mixed 27.8 87% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 34.1 SC Mixed 26.7 77% 26.8 GB/s	Latency 59.8 67% 59.8 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 98%

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

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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