Asrock Z170A-X1

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	83.4% 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	107% 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.

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Motherboard	Asrock Z170A-X1 (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160122
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Jun 14 '18 at 12:06
Run Duration	110 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.55 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	82.3% Excellent	Memory 88.3 1-Core 116 2-Core 231 82% 145 Pts	4-Core 441 8-Core 438 59% 440 Pts	64-Core 441 27% 441 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Gigabyte(1458 3703) CLim: 1961 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (79^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	83.4% Excellent	Lighting 106 Reflection 108 Parallax 95.4 86% 103 fps	MRender 94.9 Gravity 95.1 Splatting 95 78% 95 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 20GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10085 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1220 (B1) Unknown 91 91 183 (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 57 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 137 (F1) Unknown 99 99 52002861141	107% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 402 Mixed 415 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 90.1 4K Mixed 41.5 158% 56.3 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 268 DQ Mixed 102 134% 242 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 221GB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 188713120 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1048 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 69929600 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8208 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1035 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 91 91 9 (BE) vendor-specific 69 59 554893343 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 46 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 98455 (C2) HDA temperature 31 41 55834574879 (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 25838523257473 (F1) Unknown 100 253 34915102819 (F2) Unknown 100 253 182215128675	93.9% Outstanding	Read 178 Write 150 Mixed 167 124% 165 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.24 75% 0.72 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 114%

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 above expectations (61^st percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 26.8 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23 74% 26 GB/s	SC Read 16.7 SC Write 28.3 SC Mixed 24.6 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 69.2 58% 69.2 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 88%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Z170A-X1 Builds (Compare 119 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 84%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 85%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 71%

Battleship

Motherboard: Asrock Z170A-X1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	36x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	21x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	21x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 1TBWDCBench 98%, 74,123 samples	7x
OCZ TL100 240GBToshiba $56Bench 63%, 10,555 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	6x
CL16-16-16 D4-2400 2x8GBUnknownBench 71%, 17,846 samples	6x
CT16G4DFD8213.C16FAD 1x16GBCrucialBench 38%, 1,141 samples	6x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $608

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $37
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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