ASRock FATAL1TY Z170 GAMING K4

Performance Results


Gaming 11% Tree trunk	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 10% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 76.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.09% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	67.7% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	ASRock FATAL1TY Z170 GAMING K4 (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151211
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Sep 03 '16 at 01:01
Run Duration	213 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	76.4% Very good	Memory 81.4 1-Core 115 2-Core 224 78% 140 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 445 56% 426 Pts	64-Core 446 28% 446 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% ASRock(1849 1912) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4474 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.09% Terrible	Lighting 7.63 Reflection 11.2 Parallax 7 6% 8.61 fps	MRender 7.19 Gravity 6.83 Splatting 15.9 9% 9.96 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.09% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 460A 480GB-$300 523 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 447GB free Firmware: 1.01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 0 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1 (AB) Unknown 100 100 166775120 (AE) Unknown 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (D0) Spin buzz 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10 (F2) Unknown 100 100 14 (F9) Unknown 100 100 338300	109% Outstanding	Read 509 Write 489 Mixed 499 112% 499 MB/s	4K Read 29 4K Write 126 4K Mixed 32.3 152% 62.3 MB/s	DQ Read 271 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 84.4 122% 224 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 108%
OCZ Trion 150 480GB-$300 13,412 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 377GB free Firmware: SAFZ12.3 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 83 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 17 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 200 200 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C2) HDA temperature 71 62 163210199069 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4358	78.4% Very good	Read 509 Write 349 Mixed 350 89% 402 MB/s	4K Read 30.8 4K Write 72.1 4K Mixed 9.66 97% 37.5 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 9.35 60% 145 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 78.4% Great: 101%
Kingston HyperX 3K 120GB-$100 46,066 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: 580ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 20081095 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 102065602827065 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2413 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 1090 (B1) Unknown 0 0 98 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 29 40 51542229021 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 51542229021 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 20081095 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 20081095 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 20081095 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 1 (E9) Unknown 0 0 8699 (EA) Unknown 0 0 5965 (F1) Unknown 0 0 5965 (F2) Unknown 0 0 5802	67.7% Good	Read 490 Write 169 Mixed 230 65% 296 MB/s	4K Read 32.5 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 13 121% 50.1 MB/s	DQ Read 38.2 DQ Write 114 DQ Mixed 14.4 29% 55.6 MB/s
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 1315 BLS8G4D240FSB.16FARG 1315 BLS4G4D240FSA.8FARG 16GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 2400, 2400, 2400 MHz 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	49.3% Average	MC Read 18.4 MC Write 17.8 MC Mixed 15.1 49% 17.1 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 14.8 SC Mixed 15.9 41% 14.5 GB/s	Latency 78.1 51% 78.1 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 49.3% Great: 80%

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Motherboard: ASRock FATAL1TY Z170 GAMING K4 - $300

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	337x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	298x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	77x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	171x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	109x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	68x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	38x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	22x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	42x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	42x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	34x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $658

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