Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 117% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 100% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 93.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	124% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	60.6% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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 Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151109
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Mar 14 '18 at 12:33
Run Duration	219 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (61^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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.6% Outstanding	Memory 94.6 1-Core 130 2-Core 268 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 743 77% 621 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 166 Reflection 174 Parallax 161 135% 167 fps	MRender 130 Gravity 185 Splatting 133 121% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$28 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 172GB free Firmware: U21010RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 213 100 213 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 984 (A6) Unknown 100 100 11 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 62 (A9) Unknown 100 100 52 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 50 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 100 201863462938 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 8919 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4661 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4629	83% Excellent	Read 508 Write 420 Mixed 456 103% 461 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 5.39 122% 53.5 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 134 DQ Mixed 31.9 40% 67.3 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 86%
Kingston A400 120GB-$32 166,392 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: SBFK71E0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 32 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (94) Unknown 255 255 0 (95) Unknown 255 255 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 7 (AA) Unknown 100 100 8 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 65542 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 255 255 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4 (C2) HDA temperature 79 70 128850067477 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 99 (E9) Unknown 100 100 199 (F1) Unknown 100 100 196 (F2) Unknown 100 100 384 (F4) Unknown 100 100 1 (F5) Unknown 100 100 6 (F6) Unknown 100 100 11352	60.6% Good	Read 452 Write 264 Mixed 289 74% 335 MB/s	4K Read 30.7 4K Write 67.5 4K Mixed 4.62 88% 34.3 MB/s	DQ Read 31 DQ Write 69.4 DQ Mixed 4.44 16% 35 MB/s
Poor: 33% ↑ This bench: 60.6% Great: 85%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 8139384 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1068 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 53944192 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4463 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 983 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 1 (BD) vendor-specific 95 95 5 (BE) vendor-specific 83 51 286195729 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 11 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16594 (C2) HDA temperature 17 49 47244640273 (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 -127354370254906 (F1) Unknown 100 253 36465796657 (F2) Unknown 100 253 424814704841	87.4% Excellent	Read 128 Write 176 Mixed 123 106% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.46 4K Write 5.19 4K Mixed 0.58 180% 2.08 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 108%
USB3.0 1TB 425 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 277GB free Firmware: 8105 Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	24.2% Poor	Read 42.1 Write 42.1 Mixed 41.6 32% 42 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 0.47 4K Mixed 0.11 41% 0.36 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 24.2% Great: 102%
WD My Passport 1TB 12,840 User benchmarks, average bench 29% 633GB free, PID 0748 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (35^th percentile)	22.3% Poor	Read 40.5 Write 41.1 Mixed 38.7 52% 40.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.52 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.19 90% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 22.3% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	85.5% Excellent	MC Read 31.1 MC Write 32.5 MC Mixed 26.3 86% 30 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 34.1 SC Mixed 27.2 77% 26.9 GB/s	Latency 58.3 69% 58.3 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 85.5% Great: 91%

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Gaming 69%

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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	3,882x
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 $160Bench 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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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