Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 123% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 104% UFO


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (34th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 66 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 93.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	135% 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	76.4% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	8.8 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '17 at 01:59
Run Duration	256 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

PC Performing below expectations (34^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.4 1-Core 134 2-Core 265 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 486 8-Core 730 76% 608 Pts	64-Core 739 46% 739 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3605) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 189 Reflection 215 Parallax 205 154% 203 fps	MRender 136 Gravity 188 Splatting 131 122% 151 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 96GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8157 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 134 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 196 196 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 50 (C2) HDA temperature 73 46 231929282587 (F1) Unknown 100 100 347259	76.4% Very good	Read 514 Write 356 Mixed 356 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 75.4 4K Mixed 9.55 100% 38.9 MB/s	DQ Read 31.8 DQ Write 237 DQ Mixed 9.41 44% 92.8 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 101%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$87 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 64 88201809 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 129 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 7479456 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 81836306858319 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 32 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 53 639500319 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 58 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 290 (C2) HDA temperature 31 47 81604378655 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 79 64 88201809 (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 85383949844761 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17071693005 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4556559023	53.7% Above average	Read 112 Write 72.4 Mixed 44.3 56% 76.3 MB/s	4K Read 3.95 4K Write 5.84 4K Mixed 0.51 330% 3.43 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 53.7% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$87 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 187692981 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 314 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 38793753 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -42971147795244 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 66 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 51 555286555 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 93 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 822 (C2) HDA temperature 27 49 81604378651 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 64 187692981 (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 19134079304757 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29235653893 (F2) Unknown 100 253 16359889883	43.4% Average	Read 78.5 Write 70.6 Mixed 44.7 48% 64.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.89 4K Write 5.75 4K Mixed 0.34 223% 2.66 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$87 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 182493749 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 487 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 76 60 42650374 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 -59661390707019 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 78 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 572063771 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 103 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1177 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 81604378651 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 64 182493749 (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 -38594576120391 (F1) Unknown 100 253 25870006628 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12215755416	65.5% Good	Read 123 Write 104 Mixed 60.9 71% 95.8 MB/s	4K Read 1.19 4K Write 5.81 4K Mixed 0.37 199% 2.46 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$87 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 1TB free Firmware: 0001 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 83 64 192479942 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12788779 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -75591424409368 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 49 571998235 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 36 (C2) HDA temperature 27 51 85899345947 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 64 192479942 (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 85100482003171 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17812825891 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4546022819	49.3% Average	Read 91.5 Write 78.5 Mixed 65.8 59% 78.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.96 4K Write 5.86 4K Mixed 0.43 197% 2.42 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 90%
Seagate Barracuda 8TB (2017)-$87 42,465 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 677GB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 65 201049654 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 149 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 4925238 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 128101694570852 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 59 589037597 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 59 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 354 (C2) HDA temperature 29 41 90194313245 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 83 65 201049654 (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 -112751481454306 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14430718821 (F2) Unknown 100 253 253848899	42.1% Average	Read 76.8 Write 67.8 Mixed 60.6 51% 68.4 MB/s	4K Read 2.59 4K Write 5.81 4K Mixed 0.5 271% 2.97 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 42.1% Great: 90%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$45 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 410GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 190233120 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 588 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8156333 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 7203 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 101 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 71 50 588906525 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 4709 (C2) HDA temperature 29 50 68719476765 (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 32813550146417 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18094740070 (F2) Unknown 100 253 14824853116	79% Very good	Read 116 Write 158 Mixed 121 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 5.34 4K Mixed 0.44 168% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$45 653,654 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	60.3% Good	MC Read 21.4 MC Write 20.7 MC Mixed 17.7 57% 19.9 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 22.1 58% 20.2 GB/s	Latency 52.4 76% 52.4 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 60.3% Great: 110%

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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	3,905x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,391x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,329x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	815x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	603x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	552x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	381x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	300x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $660

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16