Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (82nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 18 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 79.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.07% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	178% 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.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago, 8 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	6.5 GB free of 8 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160107
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 07 '16 at 00:34
Run Duration	115 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	1%

PC Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i3-6320-$165 1,734 User benchmarks, average bench 69% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 2 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.9 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	79.3% Very good	Memory 97.5 1-Core 126 2-Core 234 88% 153 Pts	4-Core 355 8-Core 355 48% 355 Pts	64-Core 355 22% 355 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 79.3% Great: 76%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4331 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.07% Terrible	Lighting 7.17 Reflection 11.4 Parallax 7.25 6% 8.6 fps	MRender 10.8 Gravity 6.13 Splatting 16 10% 11 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.07% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung SM951 NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$60 1,772 User benchmarks, average bench 171% 87GB free (System drive) Firmware: 300Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	178% Outstanding	Read 1,817 Write 644 Mixed 909 246% 1,124 MB/s	4K Read 52.4 4K Write 167 4K Mixed 32.1 209% 83.8 MB/s	DQ Read 55.6 DQ Write 204 DQ Mixed 32.6 53% 97.3 MB/s
Poor: 113% ↑ This bench: 178% Great: 213%
Corsair Force GT 120GB-$155 13,464 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 7GB free Firmware: 5.02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 104 8016887 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -10256381899373 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1512 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 265 (B1) Unknown 0 0 2 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 43 62 55838638123 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 8016887 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 8016887 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 8016887 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 4241 (EA) Unknown 0 0 4777 (F1) Unknown 0 0 4777 (F2) Unknown 0 0 7170	71.8% Very good	Read 504 Write 103 Mixed 186 57% 264 MB/s	4K Read 34.1 4K Write 120 4K Mixed 21.2 142% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 43.7 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 44.9 48% 76.8 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 71.8% Great: 83%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x4GB 952 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3082 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 41.1 MC Mixed 31.2 104% 36.2 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 41.4 SC Mixed 29.8 89% 31.1 GB/s	Latency 48.3 83% 48.3 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 108%

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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	3,900x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,387x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,327x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	811x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	601x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	551x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	377x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	300x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $649

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16