ASRock Z170 GAMING K6

Performance Results


Gaming 101% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 87% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (35th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 65 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 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 96.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	104% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	82.3% 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.

Motherboard	ASRock Z170 GAMING K6 (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160204
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Dec 21 '17 at 09:38
Run Duration	250 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing below expectations (35^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.3% Outstanding	Memory 93.1 1-Core 145 2-Core 290 97% 176 Pts	4-Core 535 8-Core 802 83% 668 Pts	64-Core 801 50% 801 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3717) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 138 Parallax 128 110% 134 fps	MRender 112 Gravity 132 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 162GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6810 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2003 (B1) Unknown 97 97 43 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 99 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 56 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 92 92 8021 (EB) Unknown 99 99 96 (F1) Unknown 99 99 39931787314	82.3% Excellent	Read 499 Write 403 Mixed 414 98% 439 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 35 4K Mixed 20.6 83% 26.8 MB/s	DQ Read 311 DQ Write 261 DQ Mixed 16.8 86% 196 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 82.3% Great: 134%
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 111GB free Firmware: EXT0CB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 8810 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3462 (B1) Unknown 98 98 17 (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 77 60 23 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 4 (EB) Unknown 99 99 103 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7846819650	57.4% Above average	Read 489 Write 228 Mixed 352 79% 356 MB/s	4K Read 25.9 4K Write 27 4K Mixed 16.4 74% 23.1 MB/s	DQ Read 26.9 DQ Write 46.5 DQ Mixed 82 49% 51.8 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 57.4% Great: 118%
Toshiba X300 4TB-$146 23,740 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 3.5TB free Firmware: FP2A 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 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 7263 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 160 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 669 (0A) Spinup retry count 103 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 160 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 3 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1000 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 193274707997 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 253 0 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 0 (DE) Loaded hours 99 99 443 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 560 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0
Poor: 57% Great: 104%
Hitachi HUA722020ALA331 2TB 22,636 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 280GB free Firmware: JKAOA3NH Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 114 114 51580961402 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1685 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5810 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1596 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1685 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1685 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 231929348126 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	43.3% Average	Read 79.3 Write 71.5 Mixed 66.8 54% 72.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.36 80% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 43.3% Great: 68%
Seagate ST3500320AS 1TB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 63% 110GB free Firmware: ST6OA3AA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 117 (03) Spinup time 116 116 38686884334 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 6825 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 34 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 20420 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 5850 (C0) Power-off retract count 85 85 18643 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 85 85 18643 (C2) HDA temperature 214 214 236224249884 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	45.2% Average	Read 79.6 Write 77.5 Mixed 71.5 57% 76.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.34 97% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 45.2% Great: 99%
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$497 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 100GB free Firmware: ST6OA31B Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 115 115 42981982707 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 9665 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 3 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 125 125 33 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 20616 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 7088 (C0) Power-off retract count 78 78 26847 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 26847 (C2) HDA temperature 200 200 219044446238 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 3 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 3 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	38.6% Below average	Read 69.9 Write 64.3 Mixed 70 51% 68.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.34 93% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 38.6% Great: 61%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 91GB free Firmware: CC44 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 138690708 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3574 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 4321863667 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 11605 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 37 3574 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 1 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 75 56 420544537 (C2) HDA temperature 25 44 60129542169 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 33 18 138690708 (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 -44006234893932 (F1) Unknown 100 253 223699807 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1248315477	32.1% Below average	Read 63.6 Write 48.1 Mixed 74.5 47% 62.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.1 4K Mixed 0.33 76% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 32.1% Great: 68%

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)	76.9% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 28.8 MC Mixed 23.3 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 29.7 SC Mixed 25.1 70% 24.5 GB/s	Latency 61.8 65% 61.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 85%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: ASRock Z170 GAMING K6 - $267

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	204x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	66x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	30x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	73x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	10x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	22x
F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 88%, 625 samples	11x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $716

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 $184	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) $35	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