Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 97% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (59th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 41 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	135% 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	72.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Very high background CPU (41%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

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. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	27.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 12 '18 at 23:21
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	41%

PC Performing as expected (59^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% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 90.3 1-Core 126 2-Core 239 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 659 67% 542 Pts	64-Core 641 40% 641 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan Xp 8,552 User benchmarks, average bench 128% Nvidia(10DE 123F) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2852 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	135% Outstanding	Lighting 187 Reflection 197 Parallax 187 153% 190 fps	MRender 127 Gravity 196 Splatting 138 125% 154 fps
Poor: 114% ↑ This bench: 135% Great: 140%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 639GB free (System drive) Firmware: X41200RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3805 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1671 (A5) Unknown 100 100 60161655221 (A6) Unknown 100 100 2 (A7) Unknown 100 100 35 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 1034 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 5 (AE) Unknown 100 100 799 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 75 58 249109151769 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1202595496216 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5299 (EA) Unknown 100 100 8976 (F1) Unknown 253 253 7825 (F2) Unknown 253 253 9253 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	72.3% Very good	Read 475 Write 226 Mixed 279 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 22.5 4K Write 68.2 4K Mixed 17.4 92% 36 MB/s	DQ Read 353 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 36.9 92% 196 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 72.3% Great: 107%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 482GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 97311368 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4975 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 80 60 4412112368 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9406 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3381 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 77 51 129236008983 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1474 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 28466 (C2) HDA temperature 23 49 -140737488355305 (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 114297669687157 (F1) Unknown 100 253 31141627265 (F2) Unknown 100 253 41728630944	93% Outstanding	Read 119 Write 206 Mixed 124 112% 150 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.23 84% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 112%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 482GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 205602848 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4706 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 134513007 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10077 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3070 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 76 51 77713178648 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1593 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 84 84 33970 (C2) HDA temperature 24 49 -140737488355304 (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 33045478381749 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26320132221 (F2) Unknown 100 253 40322358253	85.7% Excellent	Read 187 Write 111 Mixed 117 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.8 4K Mixed 0.35 95% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 112%
WD Blue 2.5" 1TB (2004)-$47 218,164 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 480GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 179 1908 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3710 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4868 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1982 (BF) G-sense error rate 89 89 11 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 446 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 329879 (C2) HDA temperature 125 100 22 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0 (F0) Head flying hours 97 97 2422 (F1) Unknown 200 200 11619514533 (F2) Unknown 200 200 7809229368 (FE) Unknown 198 198 2	55.5% Above average	Read 94.3 Write 99 Mixed 92.2 72% 95.2 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 1.72 4K Mixed 0.25 83% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 55.5% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$154 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	80.9% Excellent	MC Read 29.1 MC Write 31.1 MC Mixed 26 82% 28.7 GB/s	SC Read 18.3 SC Write 31.9 SC Mixed 23.1 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 66.8 60% 66.8 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 80.9% Great: 113%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,882x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 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 $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
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 $279	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 $182	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) $30	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