Asus Z170-DELUXE

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (61st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 39 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.4% 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	114% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-DELUXE (all builds)
Memory	59.7 GB free of 64 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Oct 22 '18 at 21:51
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (61^st 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 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93.1% Outstanding	Memory 90.1 1-Core 144 2-Core 288 95% 174 Pts	4-Core 516 8-Core 788 81% 652 Pts	64-Core 788 49% 788 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	87.4% Excellent	Lighting 112 Reflection 115 Parallax 105 92% 111 fps	MRender 95 Gravity 102 Splatting 93.8 79% 96.8 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.4% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 1TB-$199 23,857 User benchmarks, average bench 105% 796GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 466 460 421 387 390 391 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Read 465 Write 415 Mixed 362 SusWrite 419 94% 415 MB/s	4K Read 37.3 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 46.9 174% 64.4 MB/s	DQ Read 383 DQ Write 342 DQ Mixed 257 222% 327 MB/s
Poor: 78% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 126%
Samsung Portable SSD T3 500GB 1,345 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 9GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 42 42 42 42 42 42 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile) - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable	17.2% Very poor	Read 41.5 Write 41.5 Mixed 41.3 SusWrite 41.9 9% 41.6 MB/s	4K Read 10.7 4K Write 13.7 4K Mixed 11.2 38% 11.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.8 DQ Write 26.4 DQ Mixed 15.8 15% 23.3 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 17.2% Great: 101%
Samsung Portable SSD T3 1TB 658 User benchmarks, average bench 68% 922GB free Firmware: 0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 138 138 131 130 122 76 MB/s Performing way below expectations (4^th percentile)	33.4% Below average	Read 354 Write 116 Mixed 212 SusWrite 122 44% 201 MB/s	4K Read 23.8 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 3.9 42% 9.93 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 87%
WD My Passport 0810 1TB 5,284 User benchmarks, average bench 30% 731GB free, PID 0810 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 41 41 41 41 41 40 MB/s Performing way below expectations (14^th percentile)	16.6% Very poor	Read 37.7 Write 37.5 Mixed 19.5 SusWrite 40.8 46% 33.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 0.7 4K Mixed 0.6 46% 0.6 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 16.6% Great: 45%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Crucial CT16G4DFD8213.C16FBR 4x16GB 69 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	77.5% Very good	MC Read 27.5 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.6 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 18.7 SC Write 31.7 SC Mixed 25.8 73% 25.4 GB/s	Latency 67 60% 67 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 77.5% Great: 79%

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Desktop 90%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-DELUXE - $319

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	1,019x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	117x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	91x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	128x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	114x
GTX 1080-TiNvidia $485Bench 124%, 840,268 samples	106x

SSD
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	68x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	49x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	53x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	49x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x16GBG.SKILLBench 89%, 92,468 samples	24x

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Value: 44% - Average

Total price: $1,567

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