Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 27% Raft	Desktop 41% Speed boat	Workstation 26% Raft


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (4th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 96 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With an extremely low single core score, this CPU can barely handle email and light web browsing. Finally, with a gaming score of 35.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is poor.
Graphics	64.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20151022
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 13 '16 at 10:17
Run Duration	182 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	41%

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PC Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 2.2 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	35.1% Below average	Memory 33 1-Core 22.7 2-Core 42.5 21% 32.7 Pts	4-Core 200 8-Core 359 34% 279 Pts	64-Core 404 25% 404 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 35.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Nvidia(10DE 119D) Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7306 Relative performance (0^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	64.5% Good	Lighting 74.7 Reflection 87 Parallax 98 61% 86.6 fps	MRender 89.5 Gravity 86.2 Splatting 86.8 72% 87.5 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 64.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 264GB 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 99 99 791 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 93 (B1) Unknown 100 99 0 (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 71 67 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 925104811	66.9% Good	Read 489 Write 398 Mixed 415 97% 434 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 23.9 4K Mixed 19.1 62% 19.9 MB/s	DQ Read 85.3 DQ Write 75.4 DQ Mixed 27.4 35% 62.7 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 134%
Mushkin ECO2 SMI 512GB-$80 1,273 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 143GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1007C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 742 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 501 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 99 (A3) Unknown 100 100 56 (A4) Unknown 100 100 52974 (A5) Unknown 100 100 105 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 26 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 18716 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 227479 (F2) Unknown 100 100 339726 (F5) Unknown 100 100 423792	58.4% Above average	Read 491 Write 291 Mixed 372 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 12.3 4K Write 23.7 4K Mixed 17.4 54% 17.8 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 81.8 DQ Mixed 40.1 44% 74.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 97%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 391 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	57.8% Above average	MC Read 20.4 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 23.7 68% 23.7 GB/s	SC Read 4.9 SC Write 7.6 SC Mixed 7.3 19% 6.6 GB/s	Latency 238 17% 238 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 57.8% Great: 112%

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

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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	3,887x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,378x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,318x
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 $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

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $274	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 $183	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