Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 74% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 92.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	76% 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	111% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB 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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	25.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.6 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	5.9 Days
Run Date	Sep 19 '17 at 22:19
Run Duration	409 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	26%

PC Performing as expected (46^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.7% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 139 2-Core 256 91% 163 Pts	4-Core 502 8-Core 786 79% 644 Pts	64-Core 793 49% 793 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1553 MHz, MLim: 1804 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	76% Very good	Lighting 95.8 Reflection 109 Parallax 96 78% 100 fps	MRender 89.8 Gravity 90.6 Splatting 84.6 72% 88.3 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 39GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3763 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 496 (B1) Unknown 95 95 103 (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 58 47 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 40 (F1) Unknown 99 99 67224483462	111% Outstanding	Read 516 Write 398 Mixed 420 99% 445 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 39.2 175% 63.2 MB/s	DQ Read 325 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 104 133% 238 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Kingston SV300S37A120G 240GB 158 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 38GB free Firmware: 583ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 95 95 4581748 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 -24970939849018 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1385 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 154 (B1) Unknown 0 0 96 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 27 52 1009320722459 (C2) HDA temperature 27 52 1009320722459 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 4581748 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 4581748 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 4581748 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 97 97 38654705665 (E9) Unknown 0 0 27607 (EA) Unknown 0 0 19030 (F1) Unknown 0 0 19030 (F2) Unknown 0 0 15018	57.6% Above average	Read 484 Write 150 Mixed 225 62% 286 MB/s	4K Read 10.8 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 9.56 83% 41.1 MB/s	DQ Read 83.6 DQ Write 160 DQ Mixed 40.9 54% 94.9 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 57.6% Great: 87%
WDC WD800JD-75MSA3 120GB 13GB free Firmware: 506ABBF0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 120 120 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 4 (09) Power-on hours count 89 89 97942434228110 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2218 (AB) Unknown 0 0 2 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 835 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 2 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 0 0 4082 (BD) vendor-specific 33 68 51544064033 (C2) HDA temperature 33 68 51544064033 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 4 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 99 99 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 12550 (EA) Unknown 0 0 11533 (F1) Unknown 0 0 11533 (F2) Unknown 0 0 8392	46.7% Average	Read 181 Write 99.7 Mixed 117 29% 133 MB/s	4K Read 21 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 11.7 100% 44.7 MB/s	DQ Read 120 DQ Write 94.5 DQ Mixed 24.6 41% 79.6 MB/s

Kingston SHFS37A240G 500GB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 445GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 234 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 30 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 53 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 74 (EB) Unknown 99 99 3 (F1) Unknown 99 99 281763296
Poor: 24% Great: 62%
WD WD5000AAKX-083CA1 320GB 13 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 262GB free Firmware: CP100-10 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 253 99 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 5440 (04) Start/Stop count 56 56 44590 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 37302 (0A) Spinup retry count 253 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 253 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 81 81 19702 (BB) vendor-specific 253 253 0 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 34 32 (C2) HDA temperature 142 40 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 213764 (C4) Reallocation count 253 253 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 253 253 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 253 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 107	35.6% Below average	Read 59.1 Write 64.7 Mixed 61.9 47% 61.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.12 4K Mixed 0.37 82% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 35.6% Great: 57%
WD Blue 500GB (2010)-$23 496,077 User benchmarks, average bench 53% 87GB free Firmware: 19.01H19 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 143 141 3833 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 703 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 33311 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 531 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 96 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 606 (C2) HDA temperature 108 97 35 (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 5 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	47.4% Average	Read 82.7 Write 82.4 Mixed 84 63% 83 MB/s	4K Read 0.34 4K Write 1.45 4K Mixed 0.25 68% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 24% ↑ This bench: 47.4% Great: 69%
213 User benchmarks, average bench 11% 18GB free, PID 5400 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing below expectations (38^th percentile)	7.95% Terrible	Read 35.8 Write 4.58 Mixed 5.9 14% 15.4 MB/s	4K Read 6.75 4K Write 0.05 4K Mixed 0.05 29% 2.29 MB/s
Poor: 6% ↑ This bench: 7.95% Great: 17%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x16GB-$70 29,684 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2609 MHz Performing above expectations (67^th percentile)	79.8% Very good	MC Read 28 MC Write 30.9 MC Mixed 25 80% 28 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 32.2 SC Mixed 24.9 73% 25.5 GB/s	Latency 63.8 63% 63.8 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 79.8% Great: 94%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,953x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,426x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	648x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,347x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	824x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	747x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	611x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	560x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	236x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	555x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	385x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	303x

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Total price: $798

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $160	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $79
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $363