Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 59% Gunboat	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 84.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	102% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	26.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	3.5 Days
Run Date	Feb 05 '17 at 04:04
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	9%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.7% Excellent	Memory 94 1-Core 118 2-Core 231 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 406 8-Core 654 65% 530 Pts	64-Core 656 41% 656 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% EVGA(3842 6161) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.7% Good	Lighting 77 Reflection 76.3 Parallax 65.7 63% 73 fps	MRender 72.8 Gravity 71.6 Splatting 73.7 60% 72.7 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 540s Series 1TB 1,702 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 811GB free (System drive) Firmware: LSF036C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 99 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 10 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 38 40 128851640358 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 10 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 10304 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 0 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 0 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 10304 (F2) Unknown 100 100 5717 (F9) Unknown 100 100 141 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0	102% Outstanding	Read 511 Write 468 Mixed 480 108% 486 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 95.9 4K Mixed 33.5 131% 51.4 MB/s	DQ Read 293 DQ Write 274 DQ Mixed 70.5 111% 213 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 96%
OCZ AGILITY2 60GB 652 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 2GB free Firmware: 1.23 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -3015067001510 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1080 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 99 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4096 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4160 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4160 (F2) Unknown 0 0 9664	25.3% Poor	Read 191 Write 64.9 Mixed 90.6 25% 115 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 8.4 4K Mixed 7.06 43% 11.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 23.1 DQ Mixed 15.6 15% 24.8 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 25.3% Great: 51%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB-$88 40,945 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 4GB free Firmware: CC1H Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 98 175189875 (03) Spinup time 100 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7581 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 45 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 111382677 (09) Power-on hours count 54 54 40452 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 6 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1391 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 80 80 20 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 452 (BE) vendor-specific 68 55 538509344 (C2) HDA temperature 32 45 64424509472 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 40 29 175189875 (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 25116968776284 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1328797563 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4013559732	34.8% Below average	Read 63.1 Write 57.8 Mixed 58.6 45% 59.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.34 4K Mixed 0.42 99% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 34.8% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GB-$102 110,884 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3007 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	97.1% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 37.9 MC Mixed 29.4 99% 34.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.4 SC Write 41.3 SC Mixed 28.8 85% 29.8 GB/s	Latency 59.7 67% 59.7 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 97.1% Great: 114%

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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 $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,938x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,415x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	646x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,339x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	820x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	743x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	608x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	559x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	235x

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 $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	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