Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.4% 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	119% 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 12 '17 at 18:04
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	4%

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 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	90.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.6 1-Core 128 2-Core 250 89% 158 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 707 71% 579 Pts	64-Core 703 44% 703 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Nvidia(10DE 1151) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1595 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 121 Parallax 109 92% 115 fps	MRender 96.7 Gravity 105 Splatting 85.5 78% 95.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 1TB-$210 25,365 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 690GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5065 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1144 (B1) Unknown 99 99 38 (B3) Unknown 100 100 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 45 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 54071318038	119% Outstanding	Read 529 Write 503 Mixed 511 115% 514 MB/s	4K Read 37.1 4K Write 99 4K Mixed 47.7 170% 61.3 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 159 167% 275 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 696GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 6785729 (03) Spinup time 98 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12698 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 66683070 (09) Power-on hours count 69 69 27759 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4430 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 34360262664 (BD) vendor-specific 27 27 73 (BE) vendor-specific 55 37 37800763523117 (C2) HDA temperature 45 63 42949673005 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 16 6785729 (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 -137898514948583 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2910862107 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1883863249	56.8% Above average	Read 92.9 Write 105 Mixed 96.4 74% 98.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.47 104% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 70%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 380GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 107 99 13243704 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8963 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 60 53 34368015243 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11576 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2288 (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 63 43 7383687561253 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 211 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 31092 (C2) HDA temperature 37 57 -140737488355291 (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 136502650605596 (F1) Unknown 100 253 9422843827 (F2) Unknown 100 253 19911447478	81.9% Excellent	Read 163 Write 122 Mixed 127 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.27 74% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 113%

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 37.1 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 31.4 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.7 SC Write 41.8 SC Mixed 30.2 89% 31.2 GB/s	Latency 51.8 77% 51.8 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 SABERTOOTH Z170 S - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	468x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	126x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	48x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	138x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	52x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	25x
BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 5,640 samples	20x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	19x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $664

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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