Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 55% Yacht	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 44% Speed boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (41st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 59 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	71.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Very high background CPU (33%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

16 months ago, 1 month ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	2.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150804
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 10 '23 at 04:15
Run Duration	154 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	33%

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PC Performing as expected (41^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$170 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	77.4% Very good	Memory 87.5 1-Core 104 2-Core 185 74% 126 Pts	4-Core 369 8-Core 497 55% 433 Pts	64-Core 474 29% 474 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 77.4% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$195 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Gigabyte(1458 4013) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 526.86 Performing below potential (67^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	71.9% Very good	Lighting 89.4 Reflection 89.1 Parallax 83.1 73% 87.2 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 79.9 Splatting 72.1 70% 87.8 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
WD Green 120GB (2016)-$84 21,990 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 11GB free Firmware: Z3311000 Relative performance n/a - sequential test incomplete		Read 408 Write 354 Mixed 342 82% 368 MB/s	4K Read 21.4 4K Write 10.1 4K Mixed 19.1 62% 16.9 MB/s	DQ Read 160 DQ Write 238 DQ Mixed 20.9 66% 140 MB/s
Poor: 36% Great: 71%
Amd-raid WDC WDS100T2G0A- 1TB 2,270 User benchmarks, average bench 115% 648GB free (System drive) Firmware: UH450400 SusWrite @10s intervals: 53 52 70 100 103 76 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile)	77.9% Very good	Read 192 Write 69.3 Mixed 42.3 SusWrite 75.4 69% 94.7 MB/s	4K Read 8.3 4K Write 8 4K Mixed 4.4 983% 6.9 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 77.9% Great: 159%
WD WD20EZAZ-00WGYX0 2TB 13,327 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 44GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 SusWrite @10s intervals: 79 72 77 74 74 75 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile)	52.9% Above average	Read 107 Write 109 Mixed 81.5 SusWrite 74.9 69% 93 MB/s	4K Read 2 4K Write 7.2 4K Mixed 0.6 283% 3.27 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 52.9% Great: 102%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$29 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 42GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 140 142 141 111 127 148 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile)	84.4% Excellent	Read 159 Write 142 Mixed 75 SusWrite 135 93% 128 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.6 4K Mixed 1.1 212% 1.57 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 84.4% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x4GB 16,490 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1917 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	56% Above average	MC Read 20.5 MC Write 20.8 MC Mixed 17.2 56% 19.5 GB/s	SC Read 13.6 SC Write 17.9 SC Mixed 17.7 47% 16.4 GB/s	Latency 70 57% 70 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 56% Great: 98%

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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-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	654x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	223x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	129x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	127x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	90x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	81x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 74% - Very good

Total price: $590

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