Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 53% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (66th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 34 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 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	67.1% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	66.5% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	11.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160324
Uptime	5.1 Days
Run Date	Aug 14 '17 at 12:54
Run Duration	147 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (66^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.5 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 90.6 1-Core 146 2-Core 291 96% 176 Pts	4-Core 568 8-Core 568 76% 568 Pts	64-Core 569 35% 569 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Gigabyte(1458 367C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1493 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	67.1% Good	Lighting 86.2 Reflection 83.8 Parallax 83.4 70% 84.4 fps	MRender 81.7 Gravity 76.4 Splatting 68.2 61% 75.4 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 67.1% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Vertex 3 240GB-$80 4,893 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 115 103122963 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1 (09) Power-on hours count 48 48 -72902774836492 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 3006 (AB) Unknown 0 0 1 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 276 (B1) Unknown 0 0 28 (B5) Unknown 0 0 1 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 103122963 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 103122963 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 103122963 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 93 93 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 69967 (EA) Unknown 0 0 61323 (F1) Unknown 0 0 61323 (F2) Unknown 0 0 100523	66.5% Good	Read 492 Write 213 Mixed 296 73% 334 MB/s	4K Read 23.4 4K Write 106 4K Mixed 13 108% 47.3 MB/s	DQ Read 24.2 DQ Write 110 DQ Mixed 11.9 25% 48.6 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 91%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1.5TB free Firmware: 50.0AB50 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 165 162 6708 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4395 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 70 70 22525 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 850 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 55 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 172 172 84971 (C2) HDA temperature 125 111 25 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	67.7% Good	Read 125 Write 111 Mixed 108 86% 115 MB/s	4K Read 0.55 4K Write 1.85 4K Mixed 0.14 73% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 67.7% Great: 67%
WD Blue 640GB (2008)-$33 94,563 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 509GB free Firmware: 01.03B01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 157 157 5116 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 980 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 37713 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 977 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 154 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 980 (C2) HDA temperature 121 102 26 (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 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	52.6% Above average	Read 94.5 Write 88.7 Mixed 85.3 67% 89.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.69 4K Write 1.44 4K Mixed 0.36 95% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 52.6% Great: 62%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GB-$40 98,777 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (27^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.5% Good	MC Read 25.3 MC Write 25.3 MC Mixed 20.3 68% 23.6 GB/s	SC Read 15.4 SC Write 24.7 SC Mixed 20.9 58% 20.3 GB/s	Latency 66.3 60% 66.3 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 88%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	643x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	426x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	95x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	126x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	124x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	89x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	88x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	80x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	68x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $455

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