Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 82% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	105% 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	95.8% 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	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.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 03:56
Run Duration	266 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	22%

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PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 90.7 1-Core 122 2-Core 241 85% 151 Pts	4-Core 365 8-Core 370 49% 367 Pts	64-Core 461 28% 461 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6284) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	105% Outstanding	Lighting 140 Reflection 145 Parallax 118 114% 134 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 136 Splatting 94.4 92% 115 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 25,072 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4385 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 607 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 67 54 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 10 (F1) Unknown 99 99 8182258939	95.8% Outstanding	Read 506 Write 400 Mixed 419 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 34.8 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 36.7 144% 51.9 MB/s	DQ Read 41.9 DQ Write 276 DQ Mixed 28.2 60% 115 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 131%
PNY SSD2SC240G1CS1754D117-820 240GB 5,703 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 34GB free Firmware: CS111101 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3796 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1713 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 58 (B1) Unknown 0 0 495 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 31 100 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 620044 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 96 (E7) Temperature 98 100 31 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2 (EA) Unknown 0 0 130 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19014 (F2) Unknown 0 0 29559	80.8% Excellent	Read 421 Write 274 Mixed 332 76% 342 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 85 4K Mixed 28.7 117% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 63.5 102% 196 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 80.8% Great: 87%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 562GB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 109512032 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3874 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 96553734 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 13117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2075 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 79 79 21 (BE) vendor-specific 75 55 420872217 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 118 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 66 66 68409 (C2) HDA temperature 25 45 64424509465 (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 49950469660303 (F1) Unknown 100 253 135912731034 (F2) Unknown 100 253 39001648393	66.3% Good	Read 125 Write 106 Mixed 96.5 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.23 80% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.3% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 192GB free Firmware: CC4C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 102 93 4942312 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7777 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 248 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 591890881 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18776 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3232 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 666 (BC) Unknown 100 100 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 420872217 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 137 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 35049 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 64424509465 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 3466038619201 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15614212828240 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -112554985852678	76.4% Very good	Read 124 Write 143 Mixed 114 95% 127 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.23 4K Mixed 0.37 92% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.9% Good	MC Read 22.8 MC Write 26.8 MC Mixed 21.4 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 22.3 SC Mixed 20.2 55% 19.1 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 88%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	643x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	427x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	126x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	124x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	89x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	89x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	80x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $464

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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