Asus Z170M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 115% UFO	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 99% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	119% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	20.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160920
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '18 at 20:53
Run Duration	181 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 96.5 1-Core 140 2-Core 277 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 766 79% 634 Pts	64-Core 766 47% 766 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% MSI(1462 3602) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	119% Outstanding	Lighting 163 Reflection 180 Parallax 179 133% 174 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 164 Splatting 112 105% 130 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 119% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk X400 512GB-$99 7,913 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 57GB free Firmware: X4120000 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (59^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 9256 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 740 (A5) Unknown 100 100 34385166656 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 52 (A8) Unknown 100 100 11 (A9) Unknown 100 100 402 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 153 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 70 65 279173857310 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 390845759579 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 2405 (EA) Unknown 100 100 3083 (F1) Unknown 253 253 2908 (F2) Unknown 253 253 13305 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	86.2% Excellent	Read 499 Write 348 Mixed 327 87% 391 MB/s	4K Read 35.2 4K Write 71 4K Mixed 18.2 114% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 339 DQ Write 195 DQ Mixed 42.3 92% 192 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 104%
Corsair Force GT 180GB-$395 889 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 43GB free Firmware: 5.05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 105 105 9811011 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 61392262548737 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1424 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 279 (B1) Unknown 0 0 7 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 58 3801117 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 9811011 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 9811011 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 9811011 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 19376 (EA) Unknown 0 0 18376 (F1) Unknown 0 0 18376 (F2) Unknown 0 0 19785	74.1% Very good	Read 460 Write 142 Mixed 274 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 28.8 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 20.7 125% 51.1 MB/s	DQ Read 257 DQ Write 215 DQ Mixed 41.1 84% 171 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 74.1% Great: 87%
Hitachi HDN726040ALE614 4TB 4,649 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 3.5TB free (System drive) Firmware: APGNW7JH Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 136 136 108 (03) Spinup time 135 135 38686556646 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 66 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2351 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 66 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 620 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 620 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 163209805858 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	101% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 171 Mixed 160 129% 171 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 4.17 4K Mixed 0.46 169% 1.87 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 113%
WD WD20EZEX-00EYGA0 2TB 166 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 460GB free Firmware: KR01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 182 179 3900 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2245 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 8154 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 560 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 126 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2118 (C2) HDA temperature 119 90 28 (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	65.6% Good	Read 109 Write 119 Mixed 109 85% 112 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.51 142% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 104%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 353GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 173 169 2308 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2030 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 8825 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 613 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 160 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1876 (C2) HDA temperature 115 88 28 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	83.3% Excellent	Read 149 Write 141 Mixed 129 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.36 4K Mixed 0.27 103% 1.11 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 CMK16GX4M2B3000C15 CMK8GX4M2B3000C15 24GB 319 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 3000, 3000, 3000, 3000 MHz 8192, 4096, 8192, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 36.4 MC Write 38.9 MC Mixed 31.3 102% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 22.7 SC Write 43 SC Mixed 31.8 93% 32.5 GB/s	Latency 52.3 76% 52.3 ns
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 104%

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Gaming 51%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170M-PLUS - $87

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	386x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	291x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	203x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	122x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	114x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	92x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	61x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $76Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	46x
Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GBHyperX $169Bench 83%, 37,519 samples	34x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 73%, 66,222 samples	30x

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Total price: $518

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $165	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16