Asrock Z170 Extreme4

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 74% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 71.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	102% 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	68.4% 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 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.

Very high background CPU (74%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asrock Z170 Extreme4 (all builds)
Memory	8.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160408
Uptime	3.2 Days
Run Date	Jan 13 '18 at 13:27
Run Duration	113 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	74%

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PC Performing below expectations (30^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Memory 75.2 1-Core 82 2-Core 176 64% 111 Pts	4-Core 367 8-Core 565 58% 466 Pts	64-Core 712 44% 712 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 131 Reflection 137 Parallax 120 107% 129 fps	MRender 110 Gravity 129 Splatting 103 92% 114 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 21GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 7430 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 882 (B1) Unknown 95 95 95 (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 34 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 82 (F1) Unknown 99 99 43024233599	68.4% Good	Read 504 Write 410 Mixed 416 99% 443 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 31.7 4K Mixed 14.5 71% 23.3 MB/s	DQ Read 22.7 DQ Write 69 DQ Mixed 27.8 26% 39.8 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 68.4% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 339GB free Firmware: JC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 215237163 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3623 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 107823614065 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 16764 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1963 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 60 60 40 (BC) Unknown 100 99 25770197011 (BD) vendor-specific 99 99 1 (BE) vendor-specific 60 41 305615142952 (C2) HDA temperature 40 59 55834574888 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 46 26 215237163 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 10 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 10 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 99913824230235 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2489520197 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1851470452	59.4% Above average	Read 112 Write 95.5 Mixed 77.4 71% 94.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.38 4K Write 1.33 4K Mixed 0.27 71% 0.66 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 59.4% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below expectations (21^st percentile)	67.5% Good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 26.6 MC Mixed 21.3 71% 24.8 GB/s	SC Read 13 SC Write 20.7 SC Mixed 19.2 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 90 44% 90 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 104%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 44%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z170 Extreme4 - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	370x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	360x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	96x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	152x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	145x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	79x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	45x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	34x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	30x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	80x
Ripjaws V DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBG.SKILL $36Bench 84%, 287,720 samples	37x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	34x

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Value: 87% - Excellent

Total price: $659

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 $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