Asus Z170-A

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 76% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (84th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 16 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 96.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	89.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.1 GHz
Display	Цвета: 1280 x 1024 - 32 Bit, Цвета: 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 03 '17 at 16:42
Run Duration	126 Seconds
Run User	LVA-User
Background CPU	0%

PC Performing above expectations (84^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 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	96.2% Outstanding	Memory 96.9 1-Core 148 2-Core 291 99% 179 Pts	4-Core 513 8-Core 816 82% 665 Pts	64-Core 818 51% 818 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 96.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.59% Terrible	Lighting 7.97 Reflection 10.9 Parallax 7.88 6% 8.91 fps	MRender 10.4 Gravity 7 Splatting 16.3 10% 11.3 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.59% Great: 6%
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36B6) CLim: 1544 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Lighting 117 Reflection 118 Parallax 106 96% 114 fps	MRender 97.7 Gravity 104 Splatting 84 77% 95.2 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3946 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1377 (B1) Unknown 96 96 68 (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 69 55 31 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 275 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29165463369
Poor: 72% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 141GB free Firmware: CC4H Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 184284408 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7583 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 97374531 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 10445 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4248 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 77 53 454426647 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 514 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 82 82 37851 (C2) HDA temperature 23 47 55834574871 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 45122926417521 (F1) Unknown 100 253 40874777776274 (F2) Unknown 100 253 -18324681183519	82.1% Excellent	Read 168 Write 118 Mixed 130 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.47 127% 1.05 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 82.1% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB 51,435 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3091 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 40 MC Mixed 32.3 105% 36.6 GB/s	SC Read 23.2 SC Write 43.7 SC Mixed 32.8 95% 33.2 GB/s	Latency 50.5 79% 50.5 ns
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 108%

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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	3,887x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,378x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,318x
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 $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	376x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	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