Asus Z170-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - excluding HDD
Gaming 73% Battleship	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 59% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (45th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 55 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	76.6% 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	103% 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	Windows 10 is the most recent version of Windows, and the best to date in our opinion.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. Find active processes with Windows task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC).

Run History

9 months ago, 9 months ago, 9 months ago, 2 months ago, 2 months ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago, 1 month ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit väriä
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Feb 14 '19 at 16:25
Run Duration	130 Seconds
Run User	FIN-User
Background CPU	52%

PC Performing as expected (45^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Extreme
Intel Core i7-6700K-$298 381,041 User benchmarks, average bench 80% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.3 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	1-Core 118 2-Core 221 81% 170 Pts	4-Core 413 8-Core 675 69% 544 Pts	64-Core 682 46% 682 Pts
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 93%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$415 677,712 User benchmarks, average bench 78% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	76.6% Very good	Lighting 309 Reflection 279 Parallax 293 81% 294 fps	MRender 189 Gravity 283 Splatting 216 77% 229 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 85%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$55 507,744 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 267 64 62 63 62 62 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	Read 496 Write 477 Mixed 388 SusWrite 96.5 82% 364 MB/s	4K Read 44.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 57.3 196% 69 MB/s	DQ Read 372 DQ Write 333 DQ Mixed 348 262% 351 MB/s
Poor: 74% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 123%
Samsung 860 Evo 500GB-$60 224,064 User benchmarks, average bench 106% 154GB free Firmware: RVT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 432 463 465 473 435 271 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	123% Outstanding	Read 505 Write 477 Mixed 455 SusWrite 423 105% 465 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 57.9 195% 68.8 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 349 264% 354 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 131%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 22,476 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	82.3% Excellent	MC Read 30.4 MC Write 31.8 MC Mixed 25.9 84% 29.4 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 24.5 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 96%

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

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Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 22,908 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings.

Gaming 74%

Battleship

Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 56%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $350

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $298Bench 80%, 381,041 samples	9,812x
Core i5-6600KIntel $164Bench 76%, 216,850 samples	7,691x
Core i7-6700Intel $259Bench 69%, 134,493 samples	1,207x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $415Bench 78%, 677,712 samples	4,750x
GTX 1080Nvidia $540Bench 103%, 554,017 samples	2,778x
GTX 970Nvidia $399Bench 52%, 512,504 samples	2,359x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $55Bench 105%, 507,744 samples	3,007x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $97Bench 113%, 414,632 samples	2,421x
960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GBSamsung $100Bench 200%, 171,000 samples	557x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $58Bench 84%, 268,353 samples	1,947x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $59Bench 71%, 57,239 samples	1,152x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 72%, 33,337 samples	1,070x

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Value: 61% - Good

Total price: $1,176

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-9400F $145	Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super) $244	Crucial MX500 250GB $44
Intel Core i5-9600K $200	Nvidia RTX 2060 $324	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $150
Intel Core i7-9700K $360	AMD RX 590 $180	Samsung 850 Pro 512GB $230

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $80	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $58	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $46
Seagate Barracuda 3TB (2016) $80	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $613	SanDisk Extreme 16GB $24