Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 91.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	98.3% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	5 GB free of 8 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151001
Uptime	9.3 Days
Run Date	Jan 01 '18 at 17:31
Run Duration	168 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 (99^th percentile)	91.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 124 2-Core 235 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 492 8-Core 494 66% 493 Pts	64-Core 490 30% 490 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8598) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.3% Excellent	Lighting 104 Reflection 114 Parallax 108 85% 108 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 96.7 Splatting 100 80% 98 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX100 256GB-$116 55,768 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 165GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th 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 17568 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1165 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 16 (AE) Unknown 100 100 26 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 72 55 193274707996 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 5987883737 (F7) Unknown 100 100 187669107 (F8) Unknown 100 100 86736475	96.8% Outstanding	Read 520 Write 328 Mixed 388 91% 412 MB/s	4K Read 31.1 4K Write 119 4K Mixed 32.1 151% 60.7 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 299 DQ Mixed 20.9 78% 168 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 97%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 82GB free Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 11312267 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 66 66 57586921535090 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1690 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 273 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 11312267 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 11312267 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 11312267 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2411 (EA) Unknown 0 0 2183 (F1) Unknown 0 0 2183 (F2) Unknown 0 0 4687	71.6% Very good	Read 509 Write 149 Mixed 220 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 32.9 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 12.1 126% 52.9 MB/s	DQ Read 155 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 11.5 47% 105 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 82%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 250GB 28,058 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 117GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (33^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8849 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 461 (B1) Unknown 99 99 16 (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 63 49 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10819804227	98.3% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 416 Mixed 420 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 48.3 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 28 167% 61.6 MB/s	DQ Read 48.4 DQ Write 116 DQ Mixed 41.6 43% 68.6 MB/s
Poor: 73% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 122%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 551GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 40873666 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 13495 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 47 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 12930805811 (09) Power-on hours count 74 74 23051 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2517 (B7) Unknown 97 97 3 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 3276850 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 471138329 (C2) HDA temperature 25 49 81604378649 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 19 40873666 (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 91023241934475 (F1) Unknown 100 253 551581799 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3250243178	48% Average	Read 90.6 Write 76.5 Mixed 83.5 63% 83.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 1.08 4K Mixed 0.45 94% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 48% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 2x4GB 4,860 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	98.3% Outstanding	MC Read 35.4 MC Write 39.3 MC Mixed 29.3 99% 34.7 GB/s	SC Read 21.2 SC Write 37.1 SC Mixed 30.8 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 49.8 80% 49.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 98.3% Great: 108%

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Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 8,690 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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	3,882x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
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 $279	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 $182	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) $30	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