Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (51st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 49 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 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.3% 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	87.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 MARK 1 (all builds)
Memory	30.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1600 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Mar 22 '18 at 04:16
Run Duration	199 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing as expected (51^st percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 126 2-Core 246 87% 155 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 655 70% 560 Pts	64-Core 661 41% 661 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (74^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 112 Parallax 102 86% 107 fps	MRender 95.2 Gravity 98.7 Splatting 82 74% 92 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 401GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17234 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 289 (B1) Unknown 98 98 31 (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 57 38 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 37 (F1) Unknown 99 99 36468453264	87.9% Excellent	Read 511 Write 387 Mixed 413 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 40.3 4K Write 77 4K Mixed 23.9 132% 47.1 MB/s	DQ Read 41.7 DQ Write 182 DQ Mixed 23.9 44% 82.7 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 131%
Kingston HyperX Predator AHCI PCIe M.2 240GB-$141 6,458 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 223GB free Firmware: OC34L5TP Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4106 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 16853 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 206 (64) Unknown 100 100 2787328 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 0 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 30 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 0 0 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 42 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 9502 (B3) Unknown 0 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 37 100 270584053797 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4106 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 871 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 4106 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2081 (F1) Unknown 100 100 473 (F2) Unknown 100 100 1994 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 8110	109% Outstanding	Read 794 Write 666 Mixed 700 160% 720 MB/s	4K Read 36.9 4K Write 78.1 4K Mixed 17.5 120% 44.2 MB/s	DQ Read 38 DQ Write 77.8 DQ Mixed 16.9 24% 44.2 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 159%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 636GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 181 5825 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5679 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12155 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 207 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 145 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 176 176 74812 (C2) HDA temperature 122 99 28 (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	45.1% Average	Read 78 Write 78.9 Mixed 71.9 57% 76.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.2 78% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 45.1% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 226GB free Firmware: SD1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 61338306 (03) Spinup time 94 88 0 (04) Start/Stop count 74 74 27583 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69429100 (09) Power-on hours count 34 34 57983 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 133 (0C) Power cycle count 99 37 1445 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 47 522059807 (C2) HDA temperature 31 53 60129542175 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 24 61338306 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	46.5% Average	Read 75.3 Write 86.6 Mixed 73.4 59% 78.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.84 4K Mixed 0.34 92% 0.89 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 59%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$65 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 215GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 158 155 7083 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9294 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 29 29 51854 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 885 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 9269 (C2) HDA temperature 120 97 30 (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	38.3% Below average	Read 66.7 Write 66.3 Mixed 70.1 51% 67.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.95 4K Mixed 0.35 90% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 38.3% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2400 C15 4x8GB 2,702 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 26.5 84% 29.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 33.7 SC Mixed 26.7 76% 26.6 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 115%

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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	79x
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 $109Bench 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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Total price: $546

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