Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	83.8% 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	94.5% 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	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). 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	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '17 at 19:11
Run Duration	143 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (66^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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 146 2-Core 287 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 521 8-Core 788 81% 654 Pts	64-Core 807 50% 807 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 1996) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	83.8% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 115 Parallax 113 87% 112 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 99.9 Splatting 88.8 77% 94.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 83.8% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (57^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6640 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 546 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 137 (AE) Unknown 100 100 157 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 74 46 231929020442 (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 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 23791242406 (F7) Unknown 100 100 752287765 (F8) Unknown 100 100 45283930	94.5% Outstanding	Read 518 Write 473 Mixed 483 110% 491 MB/s	4K Read 32.2 4K Write 122 4K Mixed 22.5 142% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 32.6 DQ Write 128 DQ Mixed 21.9 34% 60.7 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 113%
Visiontek GoDrive 120GB 51 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 18GB free Firmware: 600ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4229047 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 123875446764037 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 513 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 170 (B1) Unknown 0 0 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 31 49 51542818847 (C2) HDA temperature 31 49 51542818847 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4229047 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4229047 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4229047 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 95 95 25769803777 (E9) Unknown 0 0 2814 (EA) Unknown 0 0 1731 (F1) Unknown 0 0 1731 (F2) Unknown 0 0 2460	81.8% Excellent	Read 517 Write 253 Mixed 277 77% 349 MB/s	4K Read 27.2 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 20.1 128% 54.1 MB/s	DQ Read 126 DQ Write 255 DQ Mixed 52 79% 144 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 81.8% Great: 82%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 754GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 219388016 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 232 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10068286 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2011 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 250 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 58 672202780 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 32 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1400 (C2) HDA temperature 28 42 64424509468 (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 -22024592291608 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8870646774 (F2) Unknown 100 253 320303177757	84% Excellent	Read 127 Write 165 Mixed 120 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 5.06 4K Mixed 0.46 165% 2 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 110%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 4x4GB-$97 3,926 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	68.9% Good	MC Read 24.3 MC Write 25.9 MC Mixed 21.3 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 16.9 SC Write 26.9 SC Mixed 22.1 63% 22 GB/s	Latency 63.2 63% 63.2 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 68.9% Great: 107%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,882x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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