Asrock Z170A-X1

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 22% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 88.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	28.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

High background CPU (23%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z170A-X1 (all builds)
Memory	6.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160122
Uptime	9.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '17 at 18:51
Run Duration	185 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	23%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th 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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	88.6% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 138 2-Core 275 92% 168 Pts	4-Core 501 8-Core 510 67% 505 Pts	64-Core 499 31% 499 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 88.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 270X-$199 77,943 User benchmarks, average bench 27% MSI(1462 3030) 2GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	28.8% Poor	Lighting 36.5 Reflection 32.8 Parallax 44.2 30% 37.8 fps	MRender 28.9 Gravity 30.1 Splatting 37.8 27% 32.3 fps
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 28.8% Great: 29%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate ST3250312AS 250GB-$32 19,180 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 135GB free Firmware: JC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 103 99 5306735 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5969 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 31681738 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15692 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 373 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 2 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 53 571932702 (C2) HDA temperature 30 47 55834574878 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 23 5306735 (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 127633543145377 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2671489567 (F2) Unknown 100 253 709232047	51.5% Above average	Read 94.2 Write 85.1 Mixed 90.6 68% 89.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.38 91% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 51.5% Great: 69%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 108GB free Firmware: 2AR20003 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 70 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 89 3457 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12931 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 20070 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 52 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2246 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 16592555 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 213 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 46 46 548108 (C2) HDA temperature 64 35 279173398555 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 142 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 9876 (F1) Unknown 96 88 6488684 (F2) Unknown 92 87 11206628 (FE) Unknown 252 252 0	52.2% Above average	Read 89.2 Write 92.6 Mixed 79.2 65% 87 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.24 82% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 52.2% Great: 59%
Toshiba MK1665GSX H 160GB 630 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 71GB free Firmware: GJ001Q Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (48^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 1075 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4413 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 18368 (0A) Spinup retry count 188 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2823 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 147 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 161 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 343854 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 292058824731 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (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 65 (DE) Loaded hours 81 81 7961 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 324 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	35.9% Below average	Read 60.9 Write 63.9 Mixed 61.1 47% 62 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.29 82% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 35.9% Great: 51%
Hitachi HTS545032B9A300 320GB-$59 15,217 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: PB3OC64G Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (70^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 146 146 90194313218 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 6174 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 7 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 31421 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 5840 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 603 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 146037 (C2) HDA temperature 203 203 253403791387 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 6 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0	34.1% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 55 Mixed 47.9 42% 55.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.23 58% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 34.1% Great: 42%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT4G4DFS8213.C8FBD2 4x4GB 178 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (20^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.3% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 20.4 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 25.7 SC Mixed 22.1 60% 21.1 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 98%

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Gaming 84%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 71%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z170A-X1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	36x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	21x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	21x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 1TBWDCBench 98%, 74,123 samples	7x
OCZ TL100 240GBToshiba $56Bench 63%, 10,555 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	6x
CL16-16-16 D4-2400 2x8GBUnknownBench 71%, 17,846 samples	6x
CT16G4DFD8213.C16FAD 1x16GBCrucialBench 38%, 1,141 samples	6x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $608

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $35	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