Asus Z170-E

Performance Results


Gaming 68% Battle cruiser	Desktop 79% Battleship	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 73.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	88.1% 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	32.4% is low SSD score. With a better SSD this system will boot faster, make applications more responsive and reduce 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-E (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Mar 25 '18 at 20:17
Run Duration	120 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	30%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	73.5% Very good	Memory 81.7 1-Core 97.2 2-Core 198 72% 126 Pts	4-Core 380 8-Core 366 50% 373 Pts	64-Core 383 24% 383 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 73.5% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 2088 MHz, MLim: 2152 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.24 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	88.1% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 120 Parallax 102 90% 110 fps	MRender 103 Gravity 102 Splatting 107 86% 104 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 88.1% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
PNY SSD2SC120G5LC726B104-298 120GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: 560ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 33633424 (05) Reallocated sector count 99 99 0 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 55344948584929 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1209 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 81 (B1) Unknown 0 0 168 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 59 1060860788766 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 33633424 (C4) Reallocation count 99 99 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 33633424 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 33633424 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 81 81 4294967296 (E9) Unknown 0 0 103783 (EA) Unknown 0 0 9922 (F1) Unknown 0 0 9922 (F2) Unknown 0 0 6608	32.4% Below average	Read 309 Write 106 Mixed 149 41% 188 MB/s	4K Read 3.97 4K Write 44.7 4K Mixed 5.76 37% 18.1 MB/s	DQ Read 14.3 DQ Write 111 DQ Mixed 7.08 22% 44.3 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 32.4% Great: 58%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 309GB free Firmware: CC47 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 229671056 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4844 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 22855483 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 17048 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1209 (B7) Unknown 99 99 1 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 327685 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 72 45 487784476 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 143 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 56 56 89002 (C2) HDA temperature 28 55 -34359738340 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 152 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 152 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -109513076109791 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8630487324 (F2) Unknown 100 253 7978407961	87.6% Excellent	Read 152 Write 153 Mixed 154 116% 153 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.82 4K Mixed 0.32 98% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.6% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2187 MHz Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	73% Very good	MC Read 26.5 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 24.5 76% 26.5 GB/s	SC Read 14.8 SC Write 24.6 SC Mixed 20.5 57% 20 GB/s	Latency 77.4 52% 77.4 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 88%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-E

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	614x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	512x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	167x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	293x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	216x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	155x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	79x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	78x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	84x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	64x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	62x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

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