Asus Z170-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 71% Battleship	Desktop 99% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 100%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	68.5% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 28 '17 at 08:21
Run Duration	164 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (78^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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 152 2-Core 306 101% 185 Pts	4-Core 600 8-Core 602 80% 601 Pts	64-Core 610 38% 610 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% MSI(1462 3170) CLim: 1550 MHz, MLim: 1817 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	68.5% Good	Lighting 86.9 Reflection 90 Parallax 84.9 71% 87.3 fps	MRender 85.8 Gravity 79.9 Splatting 71.6 64% 79.1 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 68.5% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 53GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 6631 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1944 (B1) Unknown 86 86 167 (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 62 50 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 332 (EB) Unknown 99 99 386 (F1) Unknown 99 99 48149832429
Poor: 64% Great: 118%
Toshiba P300 3TB-$99 74,038 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 2.5TB free Firmware: MX6OACF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 140 140 67 (03) Spinup time 156 156 34384183660 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 413 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 124 124 33 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1126 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 401 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 452 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 452 (C2) HDA temperature 153 153 206159740967 (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 4	95.2% Outstanding	Read 162 Write 170 Mixed 130 115% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.15 4K Write 0.5 4K Mixed 0.19 79% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.2% Great: 108%
Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB-$83 138,859 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 307GB free Firmware: 1AJ10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 2284 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 70 69 9242 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 3017 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 8640 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 252 252 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2914 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 54 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 43 244814053406 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 1 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 875 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 9766 (DF) Load/unload retry count 252 252 0 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 78 78 228901	76.2% Very good	Read 114 Write 151 Mixed 108 93% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.47 118% 1.06 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 75%
WD Blue 320GB (2008)-$39 64,707 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 116GB free Firmware: 12.01C02 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 197 194 84039 (03) Spinup time 186 176 5700 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5151 (05) Reallocated sector count 148 148 412 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 13101 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4994 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 2051 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 198 198 6119 (C2) HDA temperature 118 92 32 (C4) Reallocation count 60 60 140 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 195 11 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 195 33 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 68 (C8) Write error rate 200 197 0	32.8% Below average	Read 61 Write 52.9 Mixed 58.2 43% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.72 4K Write 1.99 4K Mixed 0.4 111% 1.03 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB-$37 287,720 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	107% Outstanding	MC Read 38.4 MC Write 41.3 MC Mixed 35 109% 38.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 41.9 SC Mixed 30.9 91% 31.8 GB/s	Latency 53.8 74% 53.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 109%

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Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 8,765 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

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	3,912x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,397x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,331x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	817x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	740x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	604x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	558x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	553x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	382x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	301x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16