Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 21% Surfboard	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 20% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (80th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 20 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 94.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	12% 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	113% 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	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	6.6 GB free of 8 GB @ 3.3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 20 '16 at 17:43
Run Duration	233 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (80^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-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.8% Outstanding	Memory 97.9 1-Core 145 2-Core 290 98% 177 Pts	4-Core 494 8-Core 808 80% 651 Pts	64-Core 809 50% 809 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD HD 5770 37,602 User benchmarks, average bench 10% XFX(1682 2990) 1GB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 15.301.1901.0 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	12% Very poor	Lighting 15.8 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 13.5 13% 13.7 fps	MRender 12 Gravity 11.8 Splatting 13.4 10% 12.4 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 12% Great: 11%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 128GB-$70 18,195 User benchmarks, average bench 99% 78GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5735 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1079 (B1) Unknown 99 99 9 (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 75 67 25 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 217 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2310250388	113% Outstanding	Read 515 Write 443 Mixed 464 106% 474 MB/s	4K Read 33.2 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 42 161% 60.6 MB/s	DQ Read 374 DQ Write 341 DQ Mixed 30.1 112% 248 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 113% Great: 119%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 109 99 24613912 (03) Spinup time 92 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 360 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 46 44 236225290642 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 718 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 125 (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 76 59 403898392 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 19 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1638 (C2) HDA temperature 24 41 77309411352 (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 30760555774071 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4612730858 (F2) Unknown 100 253 3128205980	98% Outstanding	Read 171 Write 171 Mixed 156 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.29 76% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 98% Great: 114%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 500GB-$80 27,325 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 463GB free Firmware: SD1A Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (90^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 112 87 46023638 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3115 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 275005678450 (09) Power-on hours count 78 78 19502 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 99 145 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2796 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 581 (BC) Unknown 100 96 25770262578 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 73 57 521404443 (C2) HDA temperature 27 43 64424509467 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 39 33 46023638 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 31 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 31 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 189 89	56.7% Above average	Read 98.2 Write 99.2 Mixed 83.2 70% 93.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.58 134% 1.1 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 56.7% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 500GB-$23 574,344 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 352GB free Firmware: KC45 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 1936 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2247 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 12911944258 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1413 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1979 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 65539 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 74 52 487850010 (C2) HDA temperature 26 48 30064771098 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 32 27 1936 (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 -121616293952085 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1306057141 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2841222749	70.9% Very good	Read 120 Write 127 Mixed 115 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.02 4K Mixed 0.8 138% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 70.9% Great: 88%
Adata DashDrive UV128 USB 3.0 32GB-$5 2,386 User benchmarks, average bench 22% 27GB free, PID db8a Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)	12.3% Very poor	Read 41.9 Write 16.3 Mixed 6.04 21% 21.4 MB/s	4K Read 7.37 4K Write 0.3 4K Mixed 0.29 47% 2.65 MB/s
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 12.3% Great: 37%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x4GB 277 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3296 MHz Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	108% Outstanding	MC Read 40.8 MC Write 41.8 MC Mixed 30.8 108% 37.8 GB/s	SC Read 24.3 SC Write 44.8 SC Mixed 33.2 97% 34.1 GB/s	Latency 46.3 86% 46.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 113%

Take a copy of your results How to check your in-game FPS

System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

Custom PC Builder (Explore upgrades for this PC) Build your perfect PC: compare component prices, popularity, speed and value for money

CHOOSE AN UPGRADE:

CPU

GPU

SSD

HDD

RAM

MBD

Typical Z170-A Builds (Compare 8,688 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,880x
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

EDIT WITH CUSTOM PC BUILDER

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