Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 89% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 87.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	100% 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	68.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Very high background CPU (100%). 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	5.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 05 '18 at 06:21
Run Duration	149 Seconds
Run User	PER-User
Background CPU	100%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.7% Excellent	Memory 93.2 1-Core 131 2-Core 261 90% 162 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 677 69% 560 Pts	64-Core 710 44% 710 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C300) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.77 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Lighting 129 Reflection 142 Parallax 131 105% 134 fps	MRender 98.7 Gravity 124 Splatting 107 90% 110 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 64GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3G37R5 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 23 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 308 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 120 (64) Unknown 100 100 931280 (65) Unknown 100 100 93408 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 404 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 826 (B7) Unknown 100 100 3 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 28 100 146029871132 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 23 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 23 (E7) Temperature 99 99 1 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2441 (EA) Unknown 100 100 819 (F1) Unknown 100 100 1209 (F2) Unknown 100 100 816 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 140	68.3% Good	Read 474 Write 234 Mixed 227 68% 312 MB/s	4K Read 34 4K Write 48.5 4K Mixed 12.7 93% 31.7 MB/s	DQ Read 301 DQ Write 72.7 DQ Mixed 26.5 61% 134 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 68.3% Great: 88%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$39 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 662GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 199 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 2341 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 918 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2370 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 917 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 23 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1280 (C2) HDA temperature 113 106 30 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 1 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 2	101% Outstanding	Read 181 Write 171 Mixed 168 131% 174 MB/s	4K Read 1.29 4K Write 2.85 4K Mixed 0.38 148% 1.51 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%
TOSHIBA External USB 3.0 1TB 15,101 User benchmarks, average bench 31% 499GB free, PID a200 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	19.3% Very poor	Read 39 Write 38.6 Mixed 15.2 37% 30.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.67 4K Mixed 0.2 66% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 19.3% Great: 44%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14D4/4G Corsair CMV4GX4M1A2133C15 8GB 14 User benchmarks, average bench 56% 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096 MB Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	71.2% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 27.1 MC Mixed 20.7 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.7 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 22.2 63% 21.9 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 71.2% Great: 73%

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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 $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,929x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,409x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	645x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,335x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	818x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	743x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	607x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	558x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	234x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	554x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	384x
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 $170	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16