Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 51% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (56th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 44 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 92.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	54.7% 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	91.9% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	26.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '18 at 16:06
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	ZAF-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing as expected (56^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.4% Outstanding	Memory 96.2 1-Core 146 2-Core 282 97% 175 Pts	4-Core 476 8-Core 802 78% 639 Pts	64-Core 805 50% 805 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% Gigabyte(1458 3722) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	54.7% Above average	Lighting 66.8 Reflection 69.3 Parallax 59.2 54% 65.1 fps	MRender 70 Gravity 66.7 Splatting 66.5 55% 67.7 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 54.7% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 120GB-$85 104,444 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 17GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 18062 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5017 (B1) Unknown 85 85 171 (B3) Unknown 100 1 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 58 51 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 152 (F1) Unknown 99 99 30095391383	91.9% Outstanding	Read 490 Write 347 Mixed 336 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 42.9 4K Write 69.4 4K Mixed 23.2 132% 45.2 MB/s	DQ Read 349 DQ Write 221 DQ Mixed 64.8 108% 212 MB/s
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 91.9% Great: 108%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 2TB-$190 29,211 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 656GB free Firmware: MN6OA5Q0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 65 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 99 99 (03) Spinup time 136 100 34387329447 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 1546 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 135 100 26 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 21167 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1533 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (B9) Unknown 100 100 65535 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 30086135811 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 55 405143590 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 1629 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 1629 (C2) HDA temperature 157 133 193274445862 (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	74.2% Very good	Read 130 Write 129 Mixed 104 90% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.14 4K Write 0.79 4K Mixed 0.31 55% 0.41 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 74.2% Great: 85%
Hitachi HDS723020BLA642 1TB 10 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 610GB free Firmware: CA13 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 115 99 87875990 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4883 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 624344156 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21457 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 655 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 8590065666 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 47 605552676 (C2) HDA temperature 36 53 55834574884 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 52 43 87875990 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	53.6% Above average	Read 98.5 Write 88.4 Mixed 83.4 68% 90.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.26 4K Mixed 0.27 65% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 53.6% Great: 98%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 306GB free Firmware: CC25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (46^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 62481224 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3326 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 57 57 1086765354118 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12783 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3306 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 90196344902 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 59 622329893 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 73 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6218 (C2) HDA temperature 37 41 25769803813 (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 -115994181750334 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11043124872 (F2) Unknown 100 253 413632495207	88.8% Excellent	Read 156 Write 153 Mixed 149 115% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.47 4K Mixed 0.17 79% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 88.8% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$37 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 98GB free Firmware: CC27 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 151329048 (03) Spinup time 94 93 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4725 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 41 36 26031855830248 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17259 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4715 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032834 (BD) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (BE) vendor-specific 62 48 639172646 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 128 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 17310 (C2) HDA temperature 38 52 30064771110 (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 121779502727952 (F1) Unknown 100 253 35221101414 (F2) Unknown 100 253 59365462629	66.9% Good	Read 122 Write 111 Mixed 122 89% 118 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.4 4K Mixed 0.24 67% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 66.9% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$110 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	97.2% Outstanding	MC Read 36.3 MC Write 37.5 MC Mixed 29.1 98% 34.3 GB/s	SC Read 21.8 SC Write 38.9 SC Mixed 29.2 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 53.3 75% 53.3 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 97.2% Great: 105%

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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-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,945x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,418x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	647x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,344x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	822x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	744x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	608x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	560x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	235x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	555x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	385x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	303x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $796

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $164	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $89
Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369