Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	86.3% 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	100% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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-A (all builds)
Memory	13.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit Farben
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 16 '17 at 20:19
Run Duration	208 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (69^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-$163 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97.5% Outstanding	Memory 93.2 1-Core 144 2-Core 289 96% 175 Pts	4-Core 548 8-Core 797 84% 673 Pts	64-Core 799 50% 799 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4995) CLim: 1541 MHz, MLim: 1772 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 376.33 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	86.3% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 104 91% 111 fps	MRender 96.7 Gravity 102 Splatting 89.7 78% 96.1 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Synology iSCSI Storage 268GB 40 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 171GB free Firmware: 4.0 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	28.4% Poor	Read 116 Write 104 Mixed 144 27% 121 MB/s	4K Read 15.6 4K Write 12.6 4K Mixed 10.2 43% 12.8 MB/s	DQ Read 91.5 DQ Write 104 DQ Mixed 55.5 54% 83.6 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 28.4% Great: 28%
Crucial M4 256GB-$218 17,938 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 153GB free Firmware: 000F Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 1601 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 73728 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 6739 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 7442 (AA) Unknown 100 100 18 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 21 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1194 (B5) Unknown 100 100 3251315671408 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 356330 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 92 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 782468 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 18 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 61 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0
Poor: 43% Great: 74%
Samsung 850 Evo 250GB-$100 951,591 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 94GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q 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 99 99 1634 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 300 (B1) Unknown 99 99 11 (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 51 38 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 7 (F1) Unknown 99 99 7643000555	100% Outstanding	Read 514 Write 415 Mixed 414 100% 448 MB/s	4K Read 48.5 4K Write 114 4K Mixed 29.9 172% 64.3 MB/s	DQ Read 48.8 DQ Write 126 DQ Mixed 105 75% 93.3 MB/s
Poor: 72% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 124%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB-$70 337,642 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 367GB free Firmware: AP4C Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 108 99 16175163 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8560 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 79 60 91856340 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 7002 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 92 92 8428 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 39 25843357188128 (C2) HDA temperature 32 61 77309411360 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 18 16175163 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 4	52.7% Above average	Read 89.1 Write 94.6 Mixed 90.7 69% 91.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 1.37 4K Mixed 0.6 117% 0.86 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 52.7% Great: 68%
Synology iSCSI Storage 268GB 29 User benchmarks, average bench 25% 165GB free Firmware: 4.0 Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected
Poor: 4% Great: 55%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2800 C14 2x8GB 859 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing as expected (53^rd percentile)	78.9% Very good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 24.3 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 31 SC Mixed 25.1 71% 24.8 GB/s	Latency 61.7 65% 61.7 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 102%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $270

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,953x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,427x
Core i7-6700Intel $163Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	649x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,347x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	825x
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 $140Bench 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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Value: 71% - Very good

Total price: $861

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	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 $353