Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 80% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 64% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 89.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.4% 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	122% 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	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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	4.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	0.8 Days
Run Date	Dec 24 '17 at 07:59
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	32%

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PC Performing above expectations (75^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	89.4% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 123 2-Core 254 87% 156 Pts	4-Core 499 8-Core 531 68% 515 Pts	64-Core 528 33% 528 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 89.4% Great: 85%

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: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.4% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 114 Parallax 94.8 90% 106 fps	MRender 93 Gravity 100 Splatting 98.4 80% 97.2 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung PM871a 2.5 7mm 256GB 636 User benchmarks, average bench 95% 126GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAV02D0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 933 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 459 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 8 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 830 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 68 58 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EE) Unknown 99 99 99 (F1) Unknown 99 99 5249656007 (F2) Unknown 99 99 11439438570	122% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 499 Mixed 509 114% 507 MB/s	4K Read 41.8 4K Write 98.7 4K Mixed 52 182% 64.2 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 142 158% 268 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 122% Great: 119%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 953GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 213674752 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1099 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 54811821 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1878 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 774 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 327685 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 58 538312735 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 113 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 7268 (C2) HDA temperature 31 42 60129542175 (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 -113004884523667 (F1) Unknown 100 253 17955632804 (F2) Unknown 100 253 217809135137	92.3% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 155 Mixed 149 118% 157 MB/s	4K Read 0.78 4K Write 1.55 4K Mixed 0.18 81% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial BLS4G4D240FSA.M8FADM 2x4GB 369 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing below potential (31^st percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 27 MC Mixed 23 73% 25.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 24.5 SC Mixed 24.7 64% 22.2 GB/s	Latency 65.1 62% 65.1 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 90%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,380x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,320x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
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 $273	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 $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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