Asus Z170M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 13% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (26th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 74 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 a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	15.5% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	91.2% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (31%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	1.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20151130
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Nov 23 '17 at 14:51
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	31%

PC Performing below expectations (26^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	75.8% Very good	Memory 78.6 1-Core 102 2-Core 204 72% 128 Pts	4-Core 428 8-Core 391 56% 409 Pts	64-Core 406 25% 406 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX 460-$90 64,240 User benchmarks, average bench 20% Sapphire(174B E348) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 22.19.662.4 Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	15.5% Very poor	Lighting 17.9 Reflection 21 Parallax 23.1 15% 20.7 fps	MRender 22.8 Gravity 16.1 Splatting 23.8 17% 20.9 fps
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 15.5% Great: 22%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 68GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2154 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 536 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (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 58 49 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 47 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5280338332	91.2% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 394 Mixed 329 90% 408 MB/s	4K Read 38.6 4K Write 72 4K Mixed 24.5 128% 45.1 MB/s	DQ Read 228 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 85.9 98% 168 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 91.2% Great: 122%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 384GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 137 132 4150 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 482 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1598 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 390 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 435 (C2) HDA temperature 108 96 35 (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	46.1% Average	Read 75.9 Write 84.9 Mixed 63.7 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 0.36 4K Mixed 0.14 46% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 46.1% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 2400 C15 Series 2x4GB 790 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2187 MHz Performing below potential (4^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	39% Below average	MC Read 14.1 MC Write 14.5 MC Mixed 12.6 39% 13.7 GB/s	SC Read 8.5 SC Write 10.5 SC Mixed 9.3 27% 9.43 GB/s	Latency 83.2 48% 83.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 39% Great: 89%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 51%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170M-PLUS - $87

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	384x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	289x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	199x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	120x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	58x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	46x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	30x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $536

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 $184	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) $35	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