Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 69% 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.8% 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	43.4% 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 (11%). 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	12.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '18 at 05:36
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	Memory 97.5 1-Core 140 2-Core 281 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 558 8-Core 560 75% 559 Pts	64-Core 561 35% 561 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3701) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 113 Parallax 91.4 86% 103 fps	MRender 92.7 Gravity 96.6 Splatting 98 79% 95.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 233GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 42528 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 254 (B1) Unknown 96 96 38 (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 73 60 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 157 (F1) Unknown 99 99 17866232815	57.1% Above average	Read 323 Write 245 Mixed 185 56% 251 MB/s	4K Read 19.9 4K Write 61.3 4K Mixed 10.4 76% 30.5 MB/s	DQ Read 184 DQ Write 149 DQ Mixed 9.92 50% 114 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 57.1% Great: 85%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 233GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 1 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 42333 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 256 (B1) Unknown 93 93 73 (B3) Unknown 99 99 1 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (BB) vendor-specific 99 99 58 (BE) vendor-specific 72 61 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 58 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 102 (F1) Unknown 99 99 37379132792	56.8% Above average	Read 306 Write 253 Mixed 228 58% 262 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 59.7 4K Mixed 10.2 76% 30.3 MB/s	DQ Read 176 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 9.73 49% 112 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 85%
Samsung 840 120GB-$109 51,792 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 43265 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 265 (B1) Unknown 74 74 307 (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 58 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 182 (F1) Unknown 99 99 43474371890	43.4% Average	Read 316 Write 124 Mixed 158 44% 199 MB/s	4K Read 19.6 4K Write 58.2 4K Mixed 7.62 70% 28.5 MB/s	DQ Read 22.2 DQ Write 127 DQ Mixed 7.8 26% 52.3 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 43.4% Great: 73%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 3TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 202520392 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 356 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 83 60 224820962 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 26485 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 185 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 589833 (BD) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BE) vendor-specific 70 59 505217054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 40 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 70 70 60605 (C2) HDA temperature 30 41 81604378654 (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 24846385831558 (F1) Unknown 100 253 112523636101 (F2) Unknown 100 253 321180911087	112% Outstanding	Read 203 Write 186 Mixed 170 140% 186 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.83 4K Mixed 0.22 91% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 113%
SanDisk Extreme Go USB 3.1 128GB-$36 967 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 78GB free, PID 558b Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	16.5% Very poor	Read 34 Write 15.5 Mixed 18.9 26% 22.8 MB/s	4K Read 5.49 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 1.03 132% 2.92 MB/s
Poor: 12% ↑ This bench: 16.5% Great: 66%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 18,693 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3091 MHz Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 38.3 MC Write 40.3 MC Mixed 30.7 104% 36.4 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 31.9 90% 31.4 GB/s	Latency 48.2 83% 48.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 102%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,890x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,379x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,319x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	809x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
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	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 $179	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