Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 58% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, 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	77.9% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 20:12
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	15%

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PC Performing as expected (55^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 86 1-Core 131 2-Core 264 88% 160 Pts	4-Core 506 8-Core 498 67% 502 Pts	64-Core 508 32% 508 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.3% Excellent	Lighting 102 Reflection 118 Parallax 94.7 84% 105 fps	MRender 97.2 Gravity 92.1 Splatting 102 80% 97 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 251GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5889 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 469 (B1) Unknown 97 97 13 (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 55 48 45 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 13 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12253560718	77.9% Very good	Read 464 Write 259 Mixed 269 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 26.2 109% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 299 DQ Write 176 DQ Mixed 14.6 71% 163 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 123%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$30 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 795GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 167 2416 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4865 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 5877 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 468 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 17159 (C2) HDA temperature 99 90 44 (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	102% Outstanding	Read 193 Write 164 Mixed 151 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.27 113% 1.17 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	59.3% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 22.2 MC Mixed 18 59% 20.7 GB/s	SC Read 14 SC Write 21.1 SC Mixed 18.3 51% 17.8 GB/s	Latency 71.2 56% 71.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 59.3% Great: 80%

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Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 8,690 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

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 $133	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