Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 36% Jet ski	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 32% Sail boat


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 92.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	31.8% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	224% 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	48GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 48GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	30.4 GB free of 48 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	6.8 Days
Run Date	Jun 20 '18 at 06:53
Run Duration	290 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

Watch Gameplay: 1050-Ti + 9600K How to compare your gameplay

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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.6% Outstanding	Memory 92.5 1-Core 143 2-Core 285 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 729 77% 614 Pts	64-Core 770 48% 770 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1050-Ti-$59 946,701 User benchmarks, average bench 29% Zotac(19DA A454) ≥ 4GB; 4095MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti (ZOTAC International) CLim: 1923 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 397.93 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	31.8% Below average	Lighting 39.9 Reflection 30.9 Parallax 37.4 32% 36.1 fps	MRender 38.5 Gravity 37.6 Splatting 35.8 30% 37.3 fps
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 31.8% Great: 33%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB-$43 165,668 User benchmarks, average bench 213% 302GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	224% Outstanding	Read 2,269 Write 1,228 Mixed 1,292 352% 1,596 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 152 4K Mixed 28.8 182% 74.5 MB/s	DQ Read 54.2 DQ Write 202 DQ Mixed 27.7 50% 94.8 MB/s
Poor: 153% ↑ This bench: 224% Great: 254%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 293GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 16182 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 268 (B1) Unknown 98 98 41 (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 56 46 44 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 153 (F1) Unknown 99 99 87751889453	64% Good	Read 376 Write 295 Mixed 309 73% 326 MB/s	4K Read 29.5 4K Write 47.5 4K Mixed 20.4 96% 32.5 MB/s	DQ Read 36 DQ Write 67.4 DQ Mixed 21.8 25% 41.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 64% Great: 133%
Samsung SSD 250GB 2,741 User benchmarks, average bench 100% 203GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 17942 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 323 (B1) Unknown 94 94 107 (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 43 43 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 229 (F1) Unknown 99 99 32962230695	104% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 488 Mixed 504 111% 498 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 32.2 170% 66.5 MB/s	DQ Read 42.8 DQ Write 144 DQ Mixed 31.1 42% 72.5 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 126%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 176 5933 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3195 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 80 80 14676 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 267 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 204 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 69 69 393333 (C2) HDA temperature 107 96 43 (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	73.6% Very good	Read 123 Write 134 Mixed 117 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.82 4K Write 2.24 4K Mixed 0.27 105% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 73.6% Great: 96%
Seagate Barracuda 4TB (2017)-$79 179,101 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 76 64 36038985 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 16 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 1996349 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -108989090102457 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 16 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 56 50 824442924 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 43 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 52 (C2) HDA temperature 44 50 133143986220 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 76 64 36038985 (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 92874372809542 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5443961795 (F2) Unknown 100 253 141387997	68.8% Good	Read 137 Write 103 Mixed 54 72% 98 MB/s	4K Read 2.09 4K Write 0.34 4K Mixed 0.45 144% 0.96 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 68.8% Great: 90%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 164 6016 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 95 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1780 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 10 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 500 (C2) HDA temperature 105 99 45 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	74.6% Very good	Read 146 Write 115 Mixed 118 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.9 4K Write 0.41 4K Mixed 0.2 68% 0.51 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 74.6% Great: 100%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 1TB free Firmware: 80.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 180 11879 (03) Spinup time 184 176 7791 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4019 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 6914 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2054 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 1373 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 174 174 79909 (C2) HDA temperature 108 97 44 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 4 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 5 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 47	65.5% Good	Read 118 Write 110 Mixed 114 86% 114 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 2.05 4K Mixed 0.22 80% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 65.5% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4-2400C15-8GNT F4-2400C15-16GVR F4-2400C15-8GNT F4-2400C15-16GVR 48GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 2400, 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 8192, 16384, 8192, 16384 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	77.1% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 24.8 79% 27.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 26.7 SC Mixed 18.5 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 63 63% 63 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 77.1% Great: 80%

Take a copy of your results

System Memory Latency Ladder

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

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 8,704 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	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,379x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,319x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	299x

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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 $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