Asus Z170-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 6% Tree trunk	Desktop 73% Battleship	Workstation 6% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	1.17% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1440 x 900 - 32 Bit couleurs, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 11 '16 at 23:09
Run Duration	206 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	14%

PC Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700K-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 93.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 229 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 421 8-Core 706 69% 564 Pts	64-Core 706 44% 706 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 5400 10,400 User benchmarks, average bench 1% Sapphire(174B 3000) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.201.1151.1008 Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	1.17% Terrible	Lighting 1.37 Reflection 1.96 Parallax 1.62 1% 1.65 fps	MRender 1.86 Gravity 0.9 Splatting 1.87 1% 1.54 fps
Poor: 1% ↑ This bench: 1.17% Great: 1%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 118357032 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3956 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 161582700 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8344 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 135 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BE) vendor-specific 61 48 656539687 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 26 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8773 (C2) HDA temperature 39 52 77309411367 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 27504970564463 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24970759546 (F2) Unknown 100 253 44273983053	112% Outstanding	Read 202 Write 187 Mixed 180 143% 190 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.23 90% 0.91 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 114%
Intel Raid 1 Volume 500GB 3,334 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 395GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.0. Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	62.2% Good	Read 105 Write 112 Mixed 89.9 77% 102 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.27 4K Mixed 0.41 100% 0.8 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 62.2% Great: 88%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 279GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 214 175 4300 (04) Start/Stop count 80 80 20976 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 27 27 53834 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1314 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 108 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 20997 (C2) HDA temperature 107 90 43 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	40.9% Average	Read 71.7 Write 70.4 Mixed 69.2 53% 70.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.58 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.31 97% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 40.9% Great: 60%
Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 16GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 2GB free Firmware: PMAP Performing as expected (46^th percentile)	20.6% Poor	Read 52 Write 18.3 Mixed 21 23% 30.4 MB/s	4K Read 4.52 4K Write 0.44 4K Mixed 0.51 253% 1.82 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 20.6% Great: 36%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GB 49,673 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	73.2% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 27.7 MC Mixed 21.1 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 22.1 65% 22.8 GB/s	Latency 60.2 66% 60.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 73.2% Great: 80%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,929x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,408x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	645x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,334x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	818x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	743x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	607x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	558x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	234x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	554x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	384x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	303x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $796

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	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