Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 20% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 17% Surfboard


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 73.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	18.4% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	33.9% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

Very high background CPU (52%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 years ago, 2 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 Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180315
Uptime	4.9 Days
Run Date	Nov 18 '21 at 09:52
Run Duration	132 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	52%

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 i5-6600-$115 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	73.4% Very good	Memory 75.5 1-Core 106 2-Core 226 75% 136 Pts	4-Core 423 8-Core 356 54% 390 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R7 360-$100 26,726 User benchmarks, average bench 18% Asus(1043 0496) CLim: 1070 MHz, MLim: 1625 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 19.20 Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	18.4% Very poor	Lighting 21.8 Reflection 26.9 Parallax 28.7 18% 25.8 fps	MRender 24.6 Gravity 21.8 Splatting 24.7 20% 23.7 fps
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 18.4% Great: 20%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsun 840 EVO 500G 500GB 129 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 207GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 2.5 52 54 48 47 49 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile)	33.9% Below average	Read 435 Write 23 Mixed 95.3 SusWrite 42.2 32% 149 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 3.6 51% 11.8 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 33.9% Great: 115%
WD Red 2TB (2012)-$82 64,359 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 867GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 13 89 90 90 90 91 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	48.6% Average	Read 91.6 Write 14.2 Mixed 70 SusWrite 77.4 47% 63.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1 187% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 48.6% Great: 86%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	76.4% Very good	MC Read 27.6 MC Write 30 MC Mixed 25.3 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28 SC Mixed 22.7 65% 22.6 GB/s	Latency 89.3 45% 89.3 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.4% Great: 85%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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 $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,929x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,409x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	645x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,335x
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 $170	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