Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 91.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	60.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	88% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	11.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 19 '17 at 01:42
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	BEL-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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 (98^th percentile)	91.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 128 2-Core 241 88% 155 Pts	4-Core 463 8-Core 712 73% 588 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 91.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Gigabyte(1458 371A) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	60.1% Good	Lighting 75.8 Reflection 77.6 Parallax 67.5 62% 73.6 fps	MRender 70.9 Gravity 69.1 Splatting 68.5 57% 69.5 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 60.1% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 1 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17619 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 2244 (B1) Unknown 88 1 134 (B3) Unknown 100 1 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 1 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 51 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 3 (EB) Unknown 99 99 458 (F1) Unknown 99 99 50012360309	88% Excellent	Read 492 Write 342 Mixed 348 87% 394 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 76.8 4K Mixed 22.6 120% 44.1 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 209 DQ Mixed 62.7 104% 204 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 118%
OCZ Trion 150 120GB-$50 3,507 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 13GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2839 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 261 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 84503 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 199 199 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 112 (C2) HDA temperature 67 60 171799871521 (F1) Unknown 100 100 29942	77.1% Very good	Read 508 Write 327 Mixed 276 82% 370 MB/s	4K Read 25.2 4K Write 67.7 4K Mixed 9.62 86% 34.2 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 44.5 96% 201 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 89%
Samsung Spinpoint F2 1TB-$60 32,476 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 758GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 72 72 9270 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 11729 (05) Reallocated sector count 74 74 1140 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 12398 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9091 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1429 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 52 437321754 (C2) HDA temperature 73 51 504430619 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 617116 (C4) Reallocation count 73 73 1140 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (C8) Write error rate 99 99 1372 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.4% Average	Read 76.5 Write 88.5 Mixed 93.7 65% 86.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.17 64% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 58%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 276GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 168 4166 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4146 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12569 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1171 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 311 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 25654 (C2) HDA temperature 111 95 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	47.6% Average	Read 80 Write 85.5 Mixed 79.4 62% 81.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.12 4K Mixed 0.25 92% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 47.6% Great: 86%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 57GB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 178 169 4066 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5895 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12476 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1165 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 306 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 192 192 26722 (C2) HDA temperature 111 102 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	54.6% Above average	Read 98.4 Write 91.7 Mixed 92.2 71% 94.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.69 4K Mixed 0.2 70% 0.76 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 54.6% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB 4,583 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 39.1 MC Mixed 32.2 104% 36.5 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 42.5 SC Mixed 31 91% 31.9 GB/s	Latency 51.5 78% 51.5 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 117%

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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	3,882x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
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	374x
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 $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 $182	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) $30	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