ASRock Z170 GAMING K6

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	62.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	58.4% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (15%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	ASRock Z170 GAMING K6 (all builds)
Memory	5.4 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0.5 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '17 at 23:59
Run Duration	118 Seconds
Run User	DNK-User
Background CPU	15%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600-$132 80,688 User benchmarks, average bench 68% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.3 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 93 1-Core 118 2-Core 231 84% 147 Pts	4-Core 456 8-Core 456 61% 456 Pts	64-Core 457 28% 457 Pts
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 77%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8506) CLim: 1443 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.53 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	62.4% Good	Lighting 79.5 Reflection 82.2 Parallax 72.1 65% 77.9 fps	MRender 77.6 Gravity 72.1 Splatting 64.9 58% 71.5 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 62.4% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandisk X400 M.2 2280 128GB 12,357 User benchmarks, average bench 65% 75GB free (System drive) Firmware: X4130012 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 23 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 59 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 1 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 5186 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 59 60 257699545129 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 77310328850 (EE) Unknown 100 100 16745601 (F1) Unknown 253 253 533640541 (F2) Unknown 253 253 434358472	58.4% Above average	Read 480 Write 226 Mixed 286 73% 331 MB/s	4K Read 19.2 4K Write 42.9 4K Mixed 11.4 66% 24.5 MB/s	DQ Read 24.1 DQ Write 249 DQ Mixed 8.37 44% 93.7 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.4% Great: 87%
Seagate Video SV35.6 Series 2TB-$121 12,330 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: CV23 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (85^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 84303688 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 32 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 90 60 951992821 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 21343 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 30 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 1 1 2695 (BE) vendor-specific 67 65 571932705 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 35 (C2) HDA temperature 33 40 55834574881 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0	107% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 191 Mixed 169 136% 181 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.18 4K Mixed 0.21 75% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 113%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C15 2x4GB 38,955 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	79.5% Very good	MC Read 30.1 MC Write 30.7 MC Mixed 23.9 81% 28.2 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 28.1 SC Mixed 24.1 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 62.2 64% 62.2 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 91%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Z170 Gaming K6 Builds (Compare 367 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: ASRock Z170 GAMING K6 - $267

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	204x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	66x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	30x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	73x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	31x
GTX 980-TiNvidia $560Bench 79%, 214,030 samples	21x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	12x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	11x
970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 500GBSamsung $43Bench 273%, 381,216 samples	10x

RAM
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $37Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	27x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	22x
F4 DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBG.SKILLBench 88%, 625 samples	11x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $716

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	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) $30	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