Asus Z170-AR

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 56% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way below expectations (19th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 81 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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 70.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	90.4% 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	197% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
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.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170-AR (all builds)
Memory	6.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20171227
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 15 '18 at 01:42
Run Duration	141 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	56%

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PC Performing way below expectations (19^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	70.2% Very good	Memory 81.8 1-Core 101 2-Core 180 70% 121 Pts	4-Core 317 8-Core 483 50% 400 Pts	64-Core 532 33% 532 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 70.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 3702) CLim: 2075 MHz, MLim: 2764 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	90.4% Outstanding	Lighting 112 Reflection 135 Parallax 128 91% 125 fps	MRender 107 Gravity 122 Splatting 101 89% 110 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 90.4% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$330 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 212GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile)	197% Outstanding	Read 1,644 Write 1,157 Mixed 1,206 296% 1,336 MB/s	4K Read 35.1 4K Write 103 4K Mixed 44.4 165% 61 MB/s	DQ Read 251 DQ Write 190 DQ Mixed 106 110% 182 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 197% Great: 283%
Seagate ST2000DM001-1ER164 8TB 3 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 3TB free Firmware: 83.H0A83 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 146 146 56 (03) Spinup time 140 140 38685508052 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 3278 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 128 128 18 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5569 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 693 (16) Unknown 100 100 100 (C0) Power-off retract count 97 97 4625 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 4625 (C2) HDA temperature 157 157 227634446374 (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 200 200 3	69.8% Good	Read 127 Write 117 Mixed 129 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.44 114% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 69.8% Great: 99%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 4TB 4 User benchmarks, average bench 79% 2TB free Firmware: 0001 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 83 64 187705161 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1692 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 52 34568121325 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 -16514149245419 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 909 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 66 50 571867170 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 436 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 92 92 16927 (C2) HDA temperature 34 50 68719476770 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 11519102294576 (F1) Unknown 100 253 47994853293 (F2) Unknown 100 253 71317971662	86.1% Excellent	Read 151 Write 150 Mixed 126 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.79 4K Mixed 0.24 80% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 92%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB 7 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (43^rd percentile)	59.7% Above average	MC Read 24.5 MC Write 21.9 MC Mixed 21.6 65% 22.7 GB/s	SC Read 7.3 SC Write 12.2 SC Mixed 10.7 29% 10.1 GB/s	Latency 77.3 52% 77.3 ns
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 114%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-AR

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	653x
Core i5-6600KIntel $59Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	437x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	101x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	223x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	129x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	127x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	91x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	90x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	81x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	69x
BLS8G4D240FSB.16FBD 2x8GBCrucialBench 79%, 22,335 samples	40x

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Intel Core i5-13600K $249	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $369