Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 54% Yacht	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (44th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 56 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is above average.
Graphics	71.2% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	198% 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	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.

Very high background CPU (34%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	25.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	5.5 Days
Run Date	Aug 10 '18 at 05:11
Run Duration	153 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	34%

PC Performing as expected (44^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$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 below expectations (28^th percentile)	70% Good	Memory 78.8 1-Core 94.3 2-Core 186 69% 120 Pts	4-Core 330 8-Core 508 52% 419 Pts	64-Core 572 35% 572 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 398.36 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71.2% Very good	Lighting 119 Reflection 23 Parallax 18.7 97% 53.7 fps	MRender 28.5 Gravity 19.9 Splatting 26 20% 24.8 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 165GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 774 669 633 621 622 636 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	198% Outstanding	Read 1,737 Write 868 Mixed 704 SusWrite 659 219% 992 MB/s	4K Read 42.6 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 50.2 189% 68.8 MB/s	DQ Read 1,074 DQ Write 312 DQ Mixed 382 362% 589 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 198% Great: 243%
Crucial MX500 2TB-$132 44,787 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 1TB free Firmware: M3CR020 SusWrite @10s intervals: 372 393 418 410 426 428 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Read 469 Write 415 Mixed 392 SusWrite 408 95% 421 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 99.8 4K Mixed 46.5 161% 59.5 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 318 DQ Mixed 276 225% 320 MB/s
Poor: 83% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 125%
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 764GB free Firmware: X41200RL SusWrite @10s intervals: 354 313 300 294 290 292 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 478 Write 414 Mixed 310 SusWrite 307 84% 377 MB/s	4K Read 33.3 4K Write 94.4 4K Mixed 45.3 158% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 280 DQ Mixed 237 201% 295 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 107%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 4x8GB 3,576 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 1913 MHz Performing below potential (6^th percentile) - Ensure that the top XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	61.6% Good	MC Read 22 MC Write 24.2 MC Mixed 20 63% 22.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.4 SC Write 22.6 SC Mixed 17.2 50% 17.4 GB/s	Latency 82.8 48% 82.8 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 61.6% Great: 99%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,880x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	634x

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 $129Bench 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 $275	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