Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 92% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 79% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 95%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	92.5% 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	137% 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	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 21 '18 at 01:32
Run Duration	114 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	Memory 95.7 1-Core 146 2-Core 284 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 780 80% 644 Pts	64-Core 719 44% 719 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1675 MHz, MLim: 1952 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.5% Outstanding	Lighting 117 Reflection 128 Parallax 115 95% 120 fps	MRender 106 Gravity 108 Splatting 105 87% 106 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.5% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB 13,766 User benchmarks, average bench 120% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: BXV76D0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	137% Outstanding	Read 1,376 Write 264 Mixed 442 150% 694 MB/s	4K Read 36.8 4K Write 151 4K Mixed 23.8 166% 70.5 MB/s	DQ Read 533 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 19.8 118% 278 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 137% Great: 147%
Hitachi HDS721010CLA632 1TB-$109 12,285 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 24GB free Firmware: JP4OA41A Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 76 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 100 93 (03) Spinup time 123 100 21495546156 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 10631 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 140 100 30 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 24630 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3991 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 90 8676377365 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 48 438173726 (C0) Power-off retract count 91 91 10924 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 10924 (C2) HDA temperature 200 120 223339216926 (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 200 200 0	40.9% Average	Read 71.4 Write 70.8 Mixed 72.5 54% 71.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.4 98% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 76%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Dominator DDR4 4x4GB 505 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing as expected (60^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	MC Read 38.8 MC Write 41 MC Mixed 33.7 108% 37.8 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 44.3 SC Mixed 31.3 94% 32.8 GB/s	Latency 55 73% 55 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 124%

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Gaming 68%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 57%

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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 $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 $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