Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 76% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


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 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 71.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	104% 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	66.1% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

High background CPU (22%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit barev
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 02 '17 at 20:26
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	CZE-User
Background CPU	22%

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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 i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	71.9% Very good	Memory 77.2 1-Core 92.9 2-Core 183 68% 118 Pts	4-Core 359 8-Core 527 55% 443 Pts	64-Core 625 39% 625 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 71.9% Great: 80%

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: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.92 Performing below potential (71^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	104% Outstanding	Lighting 135 Reflection 145 Parallax 122 110% 134 fps	MRender 111 Gravity 133 Splatting 107 95% 117 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 520 Series 180GB-$140 14,258 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 37GB free (System drive) Firmware: 400i Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 0 -66314294151210 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1916 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1378 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1378 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 128704 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 64 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 128704 (F2) Unknown 100 100 230256 (F9) Unknown 100 100 3224	66.1% Good	Read 470 Write 165 Mixed 184 59% 273 MB/s	4K Read 24 4K Write 76.1 4K Mixed 14.4 95% 38.1 MB/s	DQ Read 249 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 60.7 88% 166 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 66.1% Great: 88%
Intel SSDSC2BW360H6 360GB 332 User benchmarks, average bench 55% 9GB free Firmware: RG21 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1219 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 700 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 29 100 81606672413 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 1 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 43114 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 65535 (E3) Torque amplification count 100 100 68 (E4) Power-off retract count 100 100 65535 (E8) Unknown 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 43114 (F2) Unknown 100 100 106212 (F9) Unknown 100 100 9024	60.5% Good	Read 439 Write 235 Mixed 193 63% 289 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 17.1 4K Mixed 20.4 72% 20.7 MB/s	DQ Read 217 DQ Write 65.9 DQ Mixed 46.9 59% 110 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 64%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 313GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (51^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 1 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7950 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 4668 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 10933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4636 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 1 (B7) Unknown 100 100 1 (B8) Unknown 98 98 2 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 437 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 64 370343958 (C2) HDA temperature 72 61 471007260 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 267768 (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 99 1 125929 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	47.5% Average	Read 87.6 Write 77.7 Mixed 86.7 63% 84 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.81 4K Mixed 0.37 96% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 47.5% Great: 62%
Samsung Spinpoint F1 1TB-$100 65,786 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 78GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 76 76 7970 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 5834 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 9411 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4413 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 78 66 370343958 (C2) HDA temperature 72 64 471007260 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 47994 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	42.4% Average	Read 65 Write 82.6 Mixed 76.8 56% 74.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.96 4K Mixed 0.38 105% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 42.4% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$408 6,794 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (9^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	70% Good	MC Read 26.2 MC Write 28.4 MC Mixed 22.7 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 12.5 SC Write 23.7 SC Mixed 16.9 51% 17.7 GB/s	Latency 85.8 47% 85.8 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 70% Great: 115%

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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 $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,881x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,376x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,316x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	808x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	599x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	228x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	549x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	374x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	299x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $655

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