Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 81.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	6.92% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	47.2% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

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Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170515
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 16 '17 at 08:29
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	25%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	81.9% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 114 2-Core 218 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 392 8-Core 438 54% 415 Pts	64-Core 434 27% 434 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 81.9% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 22.20.16.4749 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	6.92% Terrible	Lighting 7.17 Reflection 10.7 Parallax 7.03 6% 8.28 fps	MRender 10.9 Gravity 5.93 Splatting 14.7 9% 10.5 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.92% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Pro 128GB-$150 34,842 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 83GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below potential (1^st percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6969 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2018 (B1) Unknown 96 96 129 (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 66 48 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 255 (F1) Unknown 99 99 13229727521	47.2% Average	Read 210 Write 188 Mixed 216 46% 204 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 39.8 4K Mixed 16.4 74% 25.9 MB/s	DQ Read 128 DQ Write 100 DQ Mixed 50.6 55% 93 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 47.2% Great: 110%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 91918880 (03) Spinup time 92 90 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2378 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 3920 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25741831 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4857 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1929 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032836 (BD) vendor-specific 89 89 11 (BE) vendor-specific 65 50 589496355 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 661 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 90 90 21144 (C2) HDA temperature 35 50 34359738403 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 1 24 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 1 24 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 202 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 39440684682317 (F1) Unknown 100 253 -25254248792890 (F2) Unknown 100 253 87526972465991	85.8% Excellent	Read 155 Write 144 Mixed 130 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.86 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.31 95% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 85.8% Great: 113%
WD WD8000AARS-00Y5B1 800GB 1,154 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 116GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 125 115 6725 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3506 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 9777 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2510 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 348 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 350784 (C2) HDA temperature 112 94 35 (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 15 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	42.3% Average	Read 78 Write 69.2 Mixed 75.3 56% 74.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.17 70% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 57%
Samsung SP1614C 160GB-$98 1,657 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 58GB free Firmware: SW100-25 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2 (03) Spinup time 70 52 5376 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9373 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 541349 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5713 (C2) HDA temperature 145 94 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 86435068 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0	31.2% Below average	Read 49.7 Write 58.8 Mixed 52.5 40% 53.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.32 4K Mixed 0.39 83% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 31.2% Great: 32%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
GEIL CL15-17-17 D4-3000 2x8GB 1,119 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3007 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	99.7% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 38.9 MC Mixed 32.8 102% 35.7 GB/s	SC Read 19.8 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 28.7 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 57.4 70% 57.4 ns
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 99.7% Great: 102%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

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 $178	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