Asus Z170M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 47% Yacht	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 37% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (40th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 60 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 83%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	55.7% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	108% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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 (60%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	9.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160218
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 29 '17 at 13:19
Run Duration	571 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	60%

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PC Performing below expectations (40^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	83% Excellent	Memory 84.8 1-Core 130 2-Core 256 87% 157 Pts	4-Core 472 8-Core 453 62% 462 Pts	64-Core 460 28% 460 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% EVGA(3842 6160) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	55.7% Above average	Lighting 68.4 Reflection 68.4 Parallax 58.8 56% 65.2 fps	MRender 70.7 Gravity 64.9 Splatting 68.2 56% 67.9 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 48GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 98 98 8614 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 380 (B1) Unknown 98 98 33 (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 59 53 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 282 (F1) Unknown 99 99 16735186345	108% Outstanding	Read 507 Write 397 Mixed 406 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 41.1 4K Write 86.5 4K Mixed 43.4 164% 57 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 247 DQ Mixed 113 133% 231 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 96GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 165129688 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1156 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 30244534 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11696 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 419 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 64 59 606076964 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 199 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 11719 (C2) HDA temperature 36 41 47244640292 (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 -29996051587649 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17770243115 (F2) Unknown 100 253 57758857434	55.8% Above average	Read 99.6 Write 94.8 Mixed 98.9 74% 97.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.63 4K Mixed 0.22 84% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 113%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 74GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (8^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 99063855 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6959 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 4308463223 (09) Power-on hours count 79 79 18527 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1176 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 50 656474149 (C2) HDA temperature 37 50 55834574885 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 37 13 99063855 (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 41437844492893 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2343206010 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1655388610	37.2% Below average	Read 63.8 Write 65.9 Mixed 88.9 56% 72.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.33 77% 0.69 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 37.2% Great: 68%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 41GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 2 (03) Spinup time 192 174 6375 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2082 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 51 51 36479 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1339 (C0) Power-off retract count 199 199 755 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 89 89 334505 (C2) HDA temperature 111 95 36 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 1	42.3% Average	Read 61.6 Write 85.8 Mixed 78 57% 75.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.15 4K Mixed 0.13 64% 0.65 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 42.3% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$40 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 8GB free Firmware: CC25 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 114 99 69090112 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2645 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3557558 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 13315 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 525 (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 64 57 606076964 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 204 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 13413 (C2) HDA temperature 36 43 47244640292 (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 4415226386348 (F1) Unknown 100 253 5888341099 (F2) Unknown 100 253 9730310255	52.7% Above average	Read 92.8 Write 90.7 Mixed 92.6 69% 92 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.52 4K Mixed 0.18 78% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 113%
Apple iPod 1GB 24 User benchmarks, average bench 2% 0GB free, PID 1300 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	2.13% Terrible	Read 3.67 Write 2.41 Mixed 2.91 4% 3 MB/s	4K Read 2.98 4K Write 0.12 4K Mixed 0.12 19% 1.07 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 2.13% Great: 2%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$299 20,912 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	39.6% Below average	MC Read 13.6 MC Write 14 MC Mixed 11.6 37% 13.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.2 SC Write 13.5 SC Mixed 13.2 36% 12.6 GB/s	Latency 72.2 55% 72.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 39.6% Great: 91%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170M-PLUS - $87

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	384x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	289x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	201x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	121x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	113x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	58x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	46x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	30x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $536

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	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