Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 100% UFO	Desktop 101% UFO	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (52nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 48 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	101% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	59.7% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	12 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	3440 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	1.6 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 03:43
Run Duration	287 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (52^nd 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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.8% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 147 2-Core 295 98% 179 Pts	4-Core 543 8-Core 816 84% 680 Pts	64-Core 820 51% 820 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64LC (Liquid Cooled)-$1,700 4,268 User benchmarks, average bench 94% AMD(1002 0B36) ≥ 4GB; MSI Radeon Vega 64 Liquid Cooled CLim: 1750 MHz, MLim: 945 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.10.2 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Lighting 126 Reflection 94.4 Parallax 178 102% 133 fps	MRender 92.1 Gravity 125 Splatting 135 98% 117 fps
Poor: 85% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 98%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 242GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	228% Outstanding	Read 2,462 Write 1,340 Mixed 1,458 386% 1,754 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 89.9 4K Mixed 21 124% 47.9 MB/s	DQ Read 44.6 DQ Write 477 DQ Mixed 222 183% 248 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 228% Great: 254%
Corsair Force 3 240GB-$232 6,637 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 223GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 17 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 75909252009468 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4930 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 818 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 353 (C2) HDA temperature 128 30 128850985088 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 17 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 18609 (EA) Unknown 0 0 15852 (F1) Unknown 0 0 15852 (F2) Unknown 0 0 25461	42.1% Average	Read 194 Write 180 Mixed 155 39% 176 MB/s	4K Read 16.8 4K Write 62.4 4K Mixed 11.9 74% 30.4 MB/s	DQ Read 21.4 DQ Write 61.5 DQ Mixed 9.72 17% 30.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 67%
SanDisk Ultra II 120GB-$76 9,139 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 38GB free (System drive) Firmware: X31200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 5121 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1563 (A5) Unknown 100 100 1224216938490 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 13 (A8) Unknown 100 100 42 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 22 (AE) Unknown 100 100 105 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 57 50 214749282347 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 6618614334981 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2684 (EA) Unknown 100 100 10790 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7757 (F2) Unknown 253 253 7728 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	59.7% Above average	Read 438 Write 276 Mixed 223 69% 312 MB/s	4K Read 21.6 4K Write 53.9 4K Mixed 9.62 74% 28.4 MB/s	DQ Read 25.7 DQ Write 168 DQ Mixed 9.68 33% 67.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 93%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 531GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 133590520 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6432 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 4331996526 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15547 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4482 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 60 50 82277695528 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 241 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 69023 (C2) HDA temperature 40 50 -140737488355288 (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 -135712376609021 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18539379843 (F2) Unknown 100 253 25636769680	76% Very good	Read 145 Write 120 Mixed 128 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.23 70% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 114%
WD WD10EURX 1TB-$25 53,598 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 595GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 134 129 4258 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 903 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 7166 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 738 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 157 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 759 (C2) HDA temperature 103 83 40 (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	84.9% Excellent	Read 132 Write 164 Mixed 123 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 2.16 4K Mixed 0.24 83% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 87%
Samsung Flash Drive 32GB 12,134 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 30GB free, PID 1000 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile)	9.31% Terrible	Read 36.2 Write 7.62 Mixed 12.2 19% 18.7 MB/s	4K Read 3.63 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.79 58% 1.64 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 9.31% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing as expected (44^th percentile)	73.9% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 20.6 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.5 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 23.1 67% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 58.2 69% 58.2 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 73.9% Great: 90%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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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