Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S

Performance Results


Gaming 96% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	113% 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	69.3% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Motherboard	Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160627
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Apr 04 '17 at 23:55
Run Duration	192 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	84.6% Excellent	Memory 85.9 1-Core 125 2-Core 262 87% 158 Pts	4-Core 448 8-Core 724 72% 586 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	113% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 157 Parallax 150 125% 154 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 137 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 324GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 21 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 90 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 6 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 62 163209936923 (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 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 2384089036 (F7) Unknown 100 100 74702054 (F8) Unknown 100 100 21442126 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1935 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	69.3% Good	Read 468 Write 311 Mixed 337 82% 372 MB/s	4K Read 20.9 4K Write 36.5 4K Mixed 15.6 71% 24.3 MB/s	DQ Read 276 DQ Write 193 DQ Mixed 35.7 80% 168 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 69.3% Great: 99%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$32 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 616GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 80 63 103157199 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2985 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8368046 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 4061 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1278 (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 72 48 471138332 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 3396 (C2) HDA temperature 28 16 68719476764 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 103157199 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -83794811943494 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4094042321 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4921732523	87.8% Excellent	Read 146 Write 160 Mixed 140 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.42 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.28 79% 0.78 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 112%
Seagate ST31000340NS 1TB-$95 7,250 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 496GB free Firmware: SN56 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing as expected (58^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 77 63 51392782 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 88 88 12450 (05) Reallocated sector count 98 98 58 (07) Seek error rate 50 49 1443140173627 (09) Power-on hours count 86 86 12806 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 7 (0C) Power cycle count 96 37 4711 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 46 622198820 (C2) HDA temperature 36 54 55834574884 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 23 51392782 (C5) Current pending sector count 92 92 165 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 92 92 165 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50.8% Above average	Read 88.6 Write 88.5 Mixed 83.5 65% 86.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.35 4K Mixed 0.32 80% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 50.8% Great: 60%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$37 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 443GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 253 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 281 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 201 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 69 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 528 (C2) HDA temperature 110 105 33 (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	86.4% Excellent	Read 151 Write 150 Mixed 135 109% 145 MB/s	4K Read 1.21 4K Write 2.27 4K Mixed 0.34 131% 1.28 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 86.4% Great: 109%
Maxtor STM3500320AS 500GB 5,105 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 217GB free Firmware: MX15 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing above expectations (68^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 209257850 (03) Spinup time 91 85 0 (04) Start/Stop count 84 84 16424 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (07) Seek error rate 77 60 4348874684 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 20721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 17 (0C) Power cycle count 93 37 7621 (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 69 54 538247199 (C2) HDA temperature 31 46 55834574879 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 34 21 209257850 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	50.7% Above average	Read 90 Write 86.7 Mixed 75.3 63% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.32 82% 0.73 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 50.7% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2133 C14 4x4GB 11,542 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (14^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.1% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 25.6 MC Mixed 20.8 67% 23.5 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 20.9 60% 21 GB/s	Latency 71.3 56% 71.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 99%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus SABERTOOTH Z170 S - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	468x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	126x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	48x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	138x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	83x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	54x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	52x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	45x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	24x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	25x
BLS8G4D240FSC.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 78%, 5,640 samples	20x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $40Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	19x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $650

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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