Asrock H170A-X1/3.1

Performance Results


Gaming 28% Raft	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 23% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 80.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	27.4% 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	76.3% 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.

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Motherboard	Asrock H170A-X1/3.1 (all builds)
Memory	10.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160520
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Dec 16 '17 at 19:24
Run Duration	205 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	80.5% Excellent	Memory 86.6 1-Core 107 2-Core 222 78% 139 Pts	4-Core 437 8-Core 396 57% 416 Pts	64-Core 401 25% 401 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 80.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 290-$399 68,699 User benchmarks, average bench 46% PowerColor(148C 2343) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1031 MHz, MLim: 675 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 17.1.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	27.4% Poor	Lighting 33.7 Reflection 30.6 Parallax 41.8 27% 35.4 fps	MRender 30.7 Gravity 27.6 Splatting 39.5 27% 32.6 fps
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 27.4% Great: 50%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Extreme 240GB-$200 7,034 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 116GB free (System drive) Firmware: R211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 108 17591391 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 2 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 17377437694490 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1556 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 120 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 48 68722622493 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 17591391 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 17591391 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 17591391 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16783 (EA) Unknown 0 0 12224 (F1) Unknown 0 0 12224 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9552	76.3% Very good	Read 503 Write 200 Mixed 310 74% 338 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 92 4K Mixed 20.6 115% 46.3 MB/s	DQ Read 245 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 10.4 68% 157 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 91%
Intel X25-M 80GB 12,660 User benchmarks, average bench 34% 45GB free Firmware: 2CV102M3 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6988 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7905 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 190 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 120530 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 65535 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 99 99 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0	41.3% Average	Read 257 Write 84.9 Mixed 128 34% 157 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 60.3 4K Mixed 7 73% 29.4 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 67.4 DQ Mixed 47 54% 96.9 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 41.3% Great: 44%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 174 6050 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3884 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5007 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 273 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 29 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 190 190 30622 (C2) HDA temperature 121 107 29 (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	77.3% Very good	Read 136 Write 133 Mixed 117 97% 129 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.25 94% 1 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 96%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 497GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (79^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 66 9023 (04) Start/Stop count 86 86 14227 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9852 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 4 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7589 (BF) G-sense error rate 252 252 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 57 184684642334 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 252 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 8 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 4 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 42905	68.2% Good	Read 110 Write 128 Mixed 114 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 2.42 4K Mixed 0.59 136% 1.21 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 68.2% Great: 75%
Seagate ST3500312CS 500GB-$24 89,637 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 462GB free Firmware: SC13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 100 9261678 (03) Spinup time 98 98 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1095 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 7855 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 112 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 37 6 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 25 304947331147 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 68 454557723 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 81604378651 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 55 9261678 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	55.1% Above average	Read 100 Write 91.7 Mixed 77.3 67% 89.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.7 4K Mixed 0.51 113% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.1% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (21^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.4% Good	MC Read 26.3 MC Write 26.7 MC Mixed 21.4 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 12 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.3 50% 17.3 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 104%

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Gaming 41%

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Desktop 75%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

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Motherboard: Asrock H170A-X1/3.1

CPU
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	39x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	16x
Core i5-6600Intel $132Bench 68%, 80,688 samples	12x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	18x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	18x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	10x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	6x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	6x
SSDNow V300 120GBKingston $38Bench 54%, 339,020 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	6x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	4x
CMU32GX4M4A2666C16 2x8GBCorsairBench 75%, 311 samples	4x

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Value: 79% - Very good

Total price: $278

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	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 $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