Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 15% Surfboard	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 14% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 82.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	5.84% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	121% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	1600 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 11 '17 at 15:43
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	POL-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	82.5% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 106 2-Core 212 80% 138 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 403 54% 403 Pts	64-Core 403 25% 403 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 82.5% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 21.20.16.4664 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	5.84% Terrible	Lighting 6 Reflection 9.27 Parallax 5.87 5% 7.05 fps	MRender 9.1 Gravity 4.8 Splatting 12.9 8% 8.94 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 5.84% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 120GB-$79 15,015 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 95GB free Firmware: DC32 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 100 100 -112974819750799 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1917 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 97 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 27 43 77312229403 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 97 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 153024 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 57 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 98 98 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 153024 (F2) Unknown 100 100 210053 (F9) Unknown 100 100 15018	45.8% Average	Read 476 Write 95.2 Mixed 158 52% 243 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 12.5 4K Mixed 11.8 64% 17.5 MB/s	DQ Read 63.8 DQ Write 32.3 DQ Mixed 22.6 24% 39.6 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 45.8% Great: 79%
Nvme PLEXTOR PX-128M8 128GB 190 User benchmarks, average bench 117% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1.06 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	121% Outstanding	Read 1,051 Write 368 Mixed 465 137% 628 MB/s	4K Read 38 4K Write 96.3 4K Mixed 35.7 154% 56.7 MB/s	DQ Read 328 DQ Write 108 DQ Mixed 78.6 94% 172 MB/s
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 121% Great: 152%
WD Se 1TB (2013)-$18 2,236 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 367GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 172 2341 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4300 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6539 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1914 (10) Unknown 13 187 238016002955 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 239 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4060 (C2) HDA temperature 111 103 32 (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	59.4% Above average	Read 120 Write 87 Mixed 89 74% 98.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.59 4K Write 0.16 4K Mixed 0.07 35% 0.27 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$36 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	109% Outstanding	MC Read 38.1 MC Write 43.4 MC Mixed 37.7 114% 39.7 GB/s	SC Read 20.5 SC Write 39.2 SC Mixed 29.8 85% 29.8 GB/s	Latency 55.7 72% 55.7 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 109%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,892x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,381x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	637x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
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 $90Bench 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 $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 $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 $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