Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 45% Speed boat	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 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 88.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	45.4% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
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	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Mar 13 '18 at 22:59
Run Duration	245 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	54%

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PC Performing as expected (50^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88.4% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 137 2-Core 261 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 460 8-Core 720 73% 590 Pts	64-Core 766 47% 766 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2126 MHz, MLim: 2552 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	45.4% Average	Lighting 25.9 Reflection 132 Parallax 135 21% 97.6 fps	MRender 108 Gravity 127 Splatting 106 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 45.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial C300-CTFDDAC128MAG 128GB 2,094 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0006 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4096 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 40345 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3023 (AA) Unknown 100 100 2 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 1 (AD) Unknown 211 211 7261 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 8108950750271 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 199 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 103 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 2 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 211 211 145 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0
Poor: 41% Great: 62%
Kingston SSDNow V300 240GB-$35 176,713 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 5GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4073271 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 73 73 -106695577543223 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1233 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1175 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 19 46 21477851155 (C2) HDA temperature 19 46 21477851155 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4073271 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4073271 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4073271 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2135 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1548 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1548 (F2) Unknown 0 0 1949	60.5% Good	Read 501 Write 169 Mixed 195 63% 288 MB/s	4K Read 13.5 4K Write 96.8 4K Mixed 9.57 84% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 178 DQ Mixed 45.6 61% 109 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 85%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 68GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 172776768 (03) Spinup time 95 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6463 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 21902919 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22534 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1036 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65537 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 76 50 404095000 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 56 56 88204 (C2) HDA temperature 24 50 8589934616 (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 -55018531055784 (F1) Unknown 100 253 21033963722 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29196559271	84.6% Excellent	Read 149 Write 147 Mixed 148 112% 148 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.56 4K Mixed 0.23 78% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 113%
WD Blue 500GB (2008)-$29 203,744 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 15GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 187 170 5608 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12099 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 8 8 67202 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3574 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 299 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 196 196 12123 (C2) HDA temperature 123 93 27 (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	25.8% Poor	Read 51.5 Write 37.8 Mixed 45.9 34% 45.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 25.8% Great: 69%
Seagate ST3750630AS 750GB-$207 2,150 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 14GB free Firmware: DE13 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 160797667 (03) Spinup time 93 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 87 87 14138 (05) Reallocated sector count 46 46 1119 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 68987350639 (09) Power-on hours count 40 40 52870 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 40 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4568 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 227636740149 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 51 437649433 (C2) HDA temperature 25 49 12884901913 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 45 25 160797667 (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 42404212160992 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1797314163 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2431568586	52.6% Above average	Read 90.4 Write 93.1 Mixed 82.7 67% 88.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 0.93 4K Mixed 0.32 72% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 60%
Samsung HD103SI 1TB-$89 48,059 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 5GB free Firmware: 1AG01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 83 83 5990 (04) Start/Stop count 90 90 9978 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 15336 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 1 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2190 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 25 25 75 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 85 1 269352975 (C2) HDA temperature 83 58 286130193 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 275124 (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 99 99 4 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	50.5% Above average	Read 86.4 Write 89.6 Mixed 83.9 65% 86.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.1 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.3 63% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 50.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$51 7,248 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	69.7% Good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 26.9 MC Mixed 21.2 72% 25 GB/s	SC Read 14.7 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 19 53% 18.5 GB/s	Latency 65.1 61% 65.1 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 69.7% Great: 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
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	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $45Bench 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 $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