Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


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 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	76% 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	42.3% 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.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit Farben, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 25 '17 at 17:24
Run Duration	178 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

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)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 92.4 1-Core 144 2-Core 283 96% 173 Pts	4-Core 523 8-Core 779 81% 651 Pts	64-Core 790 49% 790 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.33% Terrible	Lighting 7.77 Reflection 11.3 Parallax 7.47 6% 8.83 fps	MRender 9.43 Gravity 6.83 Splatting 15.9 9% 10.7 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.33% Great: 6%
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76% Very good	Lighting 98.4 Reflection 107 Parallax 89.9 80% 98.3 fps	MRender 83.1 Gravity 83.2 Splatting 82.1 68% 82.8 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 401GB free Firmware: M0CR031 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^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 100 100 726 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 183 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 9 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 71 62 163209609245 (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 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 214414404 (F7) Unknown 100 100 6708807 (F8) Unknown 100 100 587581 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1927 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	59.5% Above average	Read 482 Write 339 Mixed 339 86% 387 MB/s	4K Read 16.6 4K Write 23.3 4K Mixed 14.8 56% 18.2 MB/s	DQ Read 50 DQ Write 52.6 DQ Mixed 6.7 17% 36.4 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 59.5% Great: 99%
Sandisk S128G 126GB 21,984 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 28GB free (System drive) Firmware: 3.2.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4454 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1232 (A5) Unknown 100 100 528442 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 134 (AE) Unknown 100 100 114 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 69 31 231928430623 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 446 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 1085 (F1) Unknown 100 100 15387081752 (F2) Unknown 100 100 20469722695	42.3% Average	Read 429 Write 251 Mixed 255 69% 312 MB/s	4K Read 10.8 4K Write 12 4K Mixed 6.61 31% 9.79 MB/s	DQ Read 11.1 DQ Write 10.9 DQ Mixed 6.92 6% 9.65 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 56%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 442GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 22684 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 71 68 8937 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8763 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 15045 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 7733 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 104 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 47 227633856542 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 98 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 6 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 10502 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 8835	77.9% Very good	Read 130 Write 141 Mixed 139 103% 137 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.46 130% 1.27 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBR2 2x8GB 1,237 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	82.4% Excellent	MC Read 29.7 MC Write 31.2 MC Mixed 26.2 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 26 73% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 63.4 63% 63.4 ns
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 82.4% Great: 87%

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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%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,893x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,381x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	638x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,322x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	811x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	229x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	550x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	377x
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 $269	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $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