Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	103% 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	57% 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 (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	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 15 '17 at 00:19
Run Duration	170 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	13%

PC Performing as expected (55^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% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 93.4 1-Core 124 2-Core 249 88% 156 Pts	4-Core 440 8-Core 464 60% 452 Pts	64-Core 472 29% 472 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% EVGA(3842 5671) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Lighting 136 Reflection 144 Parallax 135 111% 138 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 128 Splatting 107 91% 111 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 330 Series 180GB 5,848 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -88089778337080 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4150 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3414 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 506494 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 506494 (F2) Unknown 100 100 627627 (F9) Unknown 100 100 15331	57% Above average	Read 445 Write 163 Mixed 209 60% 272 MB/s	4K Read 17.3 4K Write 101 4K Mixed 9.65 92% 42.8 MB/s	DQ Read 21.3 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 8.9 25% 49.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 83%
PNY SSD2SC480G1CS1754D117-533 480GB 961 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 36GB free Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 560 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2309 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 118 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 35 100 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 294 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (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 35 (E9) Unknown 0 0 0 (EA) Unknown 0 0 14 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5055 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7364	88.1% Excellent	Read 409 Write 395 Mixed 398 90% 400 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 31.7 134% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 22.9 DQ Write 292 DQ Mixed 20.9 57% 112 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 98%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 688GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 170 164 6491 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8429 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12846 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5029 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 362 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 155 155 135091 (C2) HDA temperature 120 100 30 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	52.1% Above average	Read 92.7 Write 88.8 Mixed 86.1 67% 89.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.86 4K Mixed 0.2 80% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 67%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 44GB free Firmware: CC35 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 101806527 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14601 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 85 60 348509108 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 15131 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5966 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065685 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 52 488243229 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 21474836509 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 31 21 101806527 (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 -38538741515674 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2073557960 (F2) Unknown 100 253 552014846	42.5% Average	Read 74.3 Write 73.7 Mixed 71.1 55% 73 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.59 123% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 42.5% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (40^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.5% Good	MC Read 23.5 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 20.6 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 15.9 SC Write 20.4 SC Mixed 19.7 53% 18.7 GB/s	Latency 61.3 65% 61.3 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 80%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,380x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $45Bench 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 $177	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