Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 86% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (74th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 26 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 89.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	89.5% 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	271% 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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	29.6 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 16 '17 at 23:37
Run Duration	242 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing above expectations (74^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	89.7% Excellent	Memory 95.5 1-Core 135 2-Core 260 92% 163 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 723 72% 588 Pts	64-Core 732 45% 732 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	Lighting 114 Reflection 121 Parallax 100 93% 112 fps	MRender 98.5 Gravity 99.7 Splatting 103 82% 100 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 170GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	271% Outstanding	Read 2,893 Write 1,195 Mixed 1,423 402% 1,837 MB/s	4K Read 60.3 4K Write 149 4K Mixed 28.8 207% 79.4 MB/s	DQ Read 571 DQ Write 467 DQ Mixed 27 154% 355 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 271% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 32GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2136 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 878 (B1) Unknown 97 97 49 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 56 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29093399636	108% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 406 Mixed 422 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 46.6 4K Write 97.2 4K Mixed 37.7 170% 60.5 MB/s	DQ Read 272 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 26.6 87% 188 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 2TB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24562256 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1107 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 4310179191 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2086 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 878 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 56 387317783 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 17 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 19686 (C2) HDA temperature 23 44 51539607575 (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 -32229434588099 (F1) Unknown 100 253 14575615727 (F2) Unknown 100 253 314243079738	112% Outstanding	Read 204 Write 185 Mixed 175 141% 188 MB/s	4K Read 0.75 4K Write 1.76 4K Mixed 0.19 85% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 114%
WD Blue 2.5" 500GB-$22 80,932 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 415GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 153 144 1308 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9021 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3034 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1576 (BF) G-sense error rate 1 1 322 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 172 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 194 194 18012 (C2) HDA temperature 122 97 21 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	48.7% Average	Read 85.7 Write 83.9 Mixed 83.5 64% 84.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.91 4K Mixed 0.15 68% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 48.7% Great: 61%
Generic STORAGE DEVICE 128GB 965 User benchmarks, average bench 32% 89GB free, PID 0749, SanDisk Ultra 128GB microSDXC Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing way below expectations (2^nd percentile)	10.3% Very poor	Read 38.7 Write 13.7 Mixed 18.7 26% 23.7 MB/s	4K Read 6.25 4K Write 0.07 4K Mixed 0.02 26% 2.11 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 10.3% Great: 46%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$560 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (75^th percentile)	96% Outstanding	MC Read 36.5 MC Write 35.9 MC Mixed 29.2 97% 33.9 GB/s	SC Read 21.5 SC Write 39.7 SC Mixed 28.8 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 96% Great: 105%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,882x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
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 $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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