Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 90.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	62.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	112% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	24.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Sep 14 '17 at 12:08
Run Duration	214 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	17%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	90.6% Outstanding	Memory 91.4 1-Core 144 2-Core 286 96% 174 Pts	4-Core 483 8-Core 790 78% 636 Pts	64-Core 788 49% 788 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 90.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% MSI(1462 3281) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	62.5% Good	Lighting 79.3 Reflection 77.3 Parallax 67 65% 74.5 fps	MRender 69.8 Gravity 70.8 Splatting 72.8 58% 71.1 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 62.5% Great: 60%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB (2017)-$154 14,088 User benchmarks, average bench 131% 281GB free (System drive) Firmware: B35500WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Read 1,569 Write 293 Mixed 417 163% 760 MB/s	4K Read 26.9 4K Write 76.5 4K Mixed 13 98% 38.8 MB/s	DQ Read 35.7 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 11.7 26% 50.3 MB/s
Poor: 84% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 155%
Adata Premier SP550 240GB-$74 29,295 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 132GB free Firmware: P0705AB Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^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 6842 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 114 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 28 (A3) Unknown 100 100 292 (94) Unknown 100 100 163138 (95) Unknown 100 100 2222 (96) Unknown 100 100 2067 (97) Unknown 100 100 2204 (A4) Unknown 100 100 43391 (A5) Unknown 100 100 90 (A6) Unknown 100 100 4 (A7) Unknown 100 100 33 (A9) Unknown 100 100 97 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 48 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 36447732367388 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 232767 (F2) Unknown 100 100 186703 (F5) Unknown 100 100 256278 (F6) Unknown 100 100 326276 (F7) Unknown 100 100 0	72% Very good	Read 478 Write 254 Mixed 271 74% 334 MB/s	4K Read 26 4K Write 66.9 4K Mixed 14.1 93% 35.7 MB/s	DQ Read 295 DQ Write 179 DQ Mixed 44.2 85% 173 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 92%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC29 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 86501064 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3689 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 111286079 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 22613 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 242 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 2 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 48 9128181787 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 150 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46263 (C2) HDA temperature 27 52 -140737488355301 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 198 32 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 95932389529316 (F1) Unknown 100 253 42909999009 (F2) Unknown 100 253 17290011948	95.8% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 173 Mixed 168 126% 167 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.26 72% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 95.8% Great: 114%
Seagate ST33000651AS 3TB-$78 5,029 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 899GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 99 9311337 (03) Spinup time 90 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1774 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 154897847235 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 46286 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1085 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 107375820827 (BD) vendor-specific 61 61 39 (BE) vendor-specific 66 46 605421602 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 506 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1784 (C2) HDA temperature 34 54 60129542178 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 12 5 9311337 (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 85456964332763 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1283266742 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3830545241	78% Very good	Read 133 Write 139 Mixed 127 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.61 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.41 104% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 78% Great: 86%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$38 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 401GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 158949568 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7542 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 25477049 (09) Power-on hours count 56 56 39293 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 383 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 73 53 521469979 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 210 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 47 47 107427 (C2) HDA temperature 27 47 51539607579 (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 29016799064480 (F1) Unknown 100 253 106038555646536 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7456410472728
Poor: 51% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-023.A00G 9905678-065.A00G 9905678-023.A00G 9905678-065.A00G 32GB 6 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2133, 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 8192, 8192, 8192, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	74% Very good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.2 MC Mixed 23 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 29.7 SC Mixed 23.5 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 75%

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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	3,906x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,393x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,330x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	816x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	740x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	604x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	553x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	381x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	300x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16