Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (54th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 46 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 85.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.7% 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	189% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (43%). 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	22.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 16 '18 at 01:58
Run Duration	397 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	43%

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PC Performing as expected (54^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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 128 2-Core 234 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 618 64% 512 Pts	64-Core 648 40% 648 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.7% Outstanding	Lighting 123 Reflection 132 Parallax 114 100% 123 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 115 Splatting 97.6 87% 108 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 403GB free Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 12506 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1431 (B1) Unknown 98 98 27 (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 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 21 (F1) Unknown 99 99 24655121562	110% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 413 Mixed 422 100% 450 MB/s	4K Read 42.5 4K Write 80.6 4K Mixed 44.5 164% 55.9 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 251 DQ Mixed 117 137% 240 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 110% Great: 134%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 386GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7216 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 801 (B1) Unknown 99 99 10 (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 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 22095423248	112% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 408 Mixed 420 99% 446 MB/s	4K Read 44.3 4K Write 84.3 4K Mixed 47 172% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 350 DQ Write 257 DQ Mixed 133 145% 246 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 133%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 155GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile)	189% Outstanding	Read 1,609 Write 685 Mixed 994 241% 1,096 MB/s	4K Read 49.5 4K Write 155 4K Mixed 46.9 217% 83.7 MB/s	DQ Read 533 DQ Write 269 DQ Mixed 182 194% 328 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 189% Great: 243%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2.5TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (84^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 20674128 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1921 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 13204863 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13715 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1582 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 65542 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 65 57 605618211 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 16 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 405824 (C2) HDA temperature 35 43 73014444067 (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 56075093026482 (F1) Unknown 100 253 23432276085 (F2) Unknown 100 253 598403298607	106% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 166 Mixed 174 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.2 82% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 126375176 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 905 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 66 60 4233061 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8092 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 892 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 65 59 588775459 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 8 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 1 1 311318 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 68719476771 (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 98475010168669 (F1) Unknown 100 253 10226733582 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8066400131	93.7% Outstanding	Read 179 Write 148 Mixed 166 124% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.18 76% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 113%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 32GB 34,316 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 30GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	13.6% Very poor	Read 35.1 Write 8.46 Mixed 15.1 20% 19.6 MB/s	4K Read 4.25 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.94 111% 2.35 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 13.6% Great: 18%
SanDisk Cruzer Blade 32GB 34,316 User benchmarks, average bench 12% 26GB free, PID 5567 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	14.4% Very poor	Read 38 Write 10.8 Mixed 17.4 24% 22.1 MB/s	4K Read 4.2 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 1.05 113% 2.35 MB/s
Poor: 5% ↑ This bench: 14.4% Great: 18%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 4x8GB 89,024 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing below potential (35^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	88.2% Excellent	MC Read 29.6 MC Write 36.6 MC Mixed 29.3 91% 31.8 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 31.2 SC Mixed 25.9 67% 23.6 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 88.2% Great: 119%

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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	3,882x
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 $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	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 $182	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) $30	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