Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 19% Surfboard	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 17% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (71st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 29 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 99.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	7.76% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	68.7% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 23 '18 at 05:47
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	IDN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (71^st 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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	99.9% Outstanding	Memory 97.2 1-Core 149 2-Core 299 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 591 8-Core 594 79% 593 Pts	64-Core 593 37% 593 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 99.9% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.76% Terrible	Lighting 8.1 Reflection 11.9 Parallax 8.12 7% 9.38 fps	MRender 11.1 Gravity 7.13 Splatting 16.7 10% 11.6 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.76% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 185GB free Firmware: 3B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	249% Outstanding	Read 2,051 Write 1,201 Mixed 1,161 324% 1,471 MB/s	4K Read 59.1 4K Write 145 4K Mixed 52.1 233% 85.5 MB/s	DQ Read 623 DQ Write 436 DQ Mixed 230 252% 429 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 249% Great: 236%
Samsung 850 EVO M.2 500GB 8 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 108GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT21B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 959 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 465 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 62 55 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 105 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3668605254	68.7% Good	Read 465 Write 243 Mixed 272 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 30.5 4K Write 50.2 4K Mixed 21.3 100% 34 MB/s	DQ Read 190 DQ Write 50.1 DQ Mixed 31.1 46% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 68.7% Great: 107%
WD Green 4TB (2013)-$136 31,988 User benchmarks, average bench 66% 834GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 176 7958 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 312 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 5243 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 296 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 76 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 163 163 111694 (C2) HDA temperature 110 102 42 (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	60.4% Good	Read 116 Write 94.8 Mixed 107 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.43 4K Write 1.75 4K Mixed 0.15 66% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 60.4% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Patriot 3400 C16 Series 2x8GB 778 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	104% Outstanding	MC Read 38.8 MC Write 42 MC Mixed 31.1 107% 37.3 GB/s	SC Read 20 SC Write 34.9 SC Mixed 29.8 81% 28.2 GB/s	Latency 49.5 81% 49.5 ns
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 112%

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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 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,893x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,381x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	638x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,322x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	811x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	229x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	550x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	377x
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 $269	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 $40	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