Asus Z170-E

Performance Results


Gaming 76% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (88th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 12 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	82.1% 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	121% 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	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.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-E (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.9 Days
Run Date	Apr 28 '19 at 23:21
Run Duration	127 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	2%

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PC Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$60 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	86% Excellent	Memory 96.1 1-Core 119 2-Core 226 85% 147 Pts	4-Core 439 8-Core 439 59% 439 Pts	64-Core 439 27% 439 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 86% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 5173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 425.31 Performing below potential (73^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.1% Excellent	Lighting 101 Reflection 115 Parallax 97.3 82% 104 fps	MRender 98.4 Gravity 95.6 Splatting 103 82% 99 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Roux24 S312 120GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 108% 41GB free (System drive) Firmware: Q0526A SusWrite @10s intervals: 322 424 429 442 441 442 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 444 Mixed 435 SusWrite 417 102% 452 MB/s	4K Read 39.3 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 56 192% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 336 DQ Mixed 114 150% 272 MB/s
Poor: 90% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 122%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 931GB free Firmware: 2BA30001 SusWrite @10s intervals: 107 106 107 107 107 107 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	61% Good	Read 106 Write 71 Mixed 63.5 SusWrite 107 64% 86.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.9 166% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 61% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLT8G4D30BET4K.C8FD 2x8GB 2,605 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3007 MHz Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	98.6% Outstanding	MC Read 36.6 MC Write 39 MC Mixed 29.4 100% 35 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 29.8 85% 29.6 GB/s	Latency 53.6 75% 53.6 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 98.6% Great: 106%

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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%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-E

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	628x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	523x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	170x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	297x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	157x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	79x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	78x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $135Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	53x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	86x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	64x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	62x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $596

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $156	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $361	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16