Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 71% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 92.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.6% 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	175% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	11.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Jan 31 '18 at 07:48
Run Duration	186 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (48^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 (99^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 264 93% 165 Pts	4-Core 474 8-Core 732 74% 603 Pts	64-Core 725 45% 725 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 90%

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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	83.6% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 112 Parallax 95.8 86% 104 fps	MRender 97.3 Gravity 96.1 Splatting 97.1 79% 96.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.6% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Adata Premier SP550 480GB-$129 8,505 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 335GB free Firmware: O0730A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^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 100 100 312 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 820 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 173 (A3) Unknown 100 100 47 (94) Unknown 100 100 40951 (95) Unknown 100 100 434 (96) Unknown 100 100 245 (97) Unknown 100 100 397 (A4) Unknown 100 100 16697 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34 (A6) Unknown 100 100 3 (A7) Unknown 100 100 8 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1000 (A9) Unknown 0 0 0 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 5 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 20 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (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 0	63.4% Good	Read 480 Write 260 Mixed 268 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 55 4K Mixed 19 88% 32.3 MB/s	DQ Read 24.9 DQ Write 59.2 DQ Mixed 11.9 18% 32 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 63.4% Great: 95%
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$119 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 286GB free Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Read 1,083 Write 532 Mixed 746 174% 787 MB/s	4K Read 22.8 4K Write 73.5 4K Mixed 23.2 103% 39.8 MB/s	DQ Read 28.6 DQ Write 250 DQ Mixed 149 112% 142 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 144%
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 271GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6503 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 463 (B1) Unknown 99 99 3 (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 72 64 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 23 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1889217630	75.8% Very good	Read 475 Write 263 Mixed 272 74% 337 MB/s	4K Read 35.5 4K Write 48.9 4K Mixed 15.8 100% 33.4 MB/s	DQ Read 343 DQ Write 188 DQ Mixed 15.4 78% 182 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 75.8% Great: 123%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 187GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	175% Outstanding	Read 1,705 Write 862 Mixed 1,090 269% 1,219 MB/s	4K Read 36.3 4K Write 144 4K Mixed 27.6 167% 69.4 MB/s	DQ Read 49.2 DQ Write 173 DQ Mixed 30.2 47% 84.1 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 175% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 145041200 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 392 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4766909 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 5658 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 392 (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 61 521732125 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15161 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 12884901917 (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 -97658966371876 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6750431012 (F2) Unknown 100 253 20020620185	87.8% Excellent	Read 163 Write 143 Mixed 153 116% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.2 73% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 15,285 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 39.5 MC Write 41.2 MC Mixed 33.9 109% 38.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.4 SC Write 45.3 SC Mixed 31.7 95% 33.1 GB/s	Latency 49.9 80% 49.9 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 110%

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Gaming 68%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 57%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	476x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	80x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	47x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	66x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	64x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	43x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	44x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	20x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	20x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	18x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	14x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	14x

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Value: 82% - Excellent

Total price: $532

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $37
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 $45	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