Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 57% Gunboat	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (57th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 43 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	76.7% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	67.9% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (14%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	11.9 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160624
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Mar 11 '18 at 06:56
Run Duration	173 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	14%

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PC Performing as expected (57^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing below expectations (34^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Memory 74.4 1-Core 104 2-Core 193 70% 124 Pts	4-Core 363 8-Core 519 55% 441 Pts	64-Core 531 33% 531 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3301) CLim: 1936 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.1 Performing below potential (34^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76.7% Very good	Lighting 96.1 Reflection 105 Parallax 89.9 78% 97 fps	MRender 90 Gravity 87.9 Splatting 90.7 74% 89.6 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 76.7% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 156GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	229% Outstanding	Read 2,091 Write 1,225 Mixed 1,181 330% 1,499 MB/s	4K Read 48.3 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 44.3 180% 62.4 MB/s	DQ Read 420 DQ Write 288 DQ Mixed 155 169% 287 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 229% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 78GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 10333 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 277 (B1) Unknown 99 99 7 (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 71 63 29 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 21 (F1) Unknown 99 99 4131159484	102% Outstanding	Read 491 Write 384 Mixed 403 95% 426 MB/s	4K Read 40.5 4K Write 79.2 4K Mixed 39.4 154% 53 MB/s	DQ Read 312 DQ Write 243 DQ Mixed 115 130% 224 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 124%
Sandisk SD8SBBU120G1122 120GB 2,087 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z3106000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 9914 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (A5) Unknown 100 100 25198964315963 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 43 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 10 (AE) Unknown 100 100 39 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 47 227633266725 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 8512635144126 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1273 (EA) Unknown 100 100 27728 (F1) Unknown 253 253 4776 (F2) Unknown 253 253 4791 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	67.9% Good	Read 488 Write 358 Mixed 317 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 22.3 4K Write 68.3 4K Mixed 0.04 70% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 129 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 1.32 51% 119 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 67.9% Great: 67%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 910GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 198 198 564 (03) Spinup time 175 171 4233 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 273 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 3 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 10323 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 272 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 42 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15998 (C2) HDA temperature 119 114 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 9 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	85.7% Excellent	Read 141 Write 158 Mixed 142 111% 147 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 2.17 4K Mixed 0.2 90% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Team Group Inc. TEAMGROUP-UD4-2400 2x8GB 9,275 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	55.6% Above average	MC Read 21.9 MC Write 21.7 MC Mixed 17.8 58% 20.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.6 SC Write 14.9 SC Mixed 13.6 37% 13 GB/s	Latency 91.6 44% 91.6 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 86%

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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	3,882x
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 $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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