Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 58% Gunboat	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: It demolishes everyday tasks such as web browsing, office apps and audio/video playback. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	60.9% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	57% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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	14.3 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit couleurs
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170113
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 22 '17 at 13:30
Run Duration	123 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84.8% Excellent	Memory 95.1 1-Core 110 2-Core 220 82% 142 Pts	4-Core 430 8-Core 436 58% 433 Pts	64-Core 440 27% 440 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 84.8% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 970-$200 834,238 User benchmarks, average bench 49% MSI(1462 3160) CLim: 1655 MHz, MLim: 1857 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	60.9% Good	Lighting 76.3 Reflection 79.2 Parallax 71 62% 75.5 fps	MRender 77.9 Gravity 71.9 Splatting 66.7 58% 72.2 fps
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 54%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
OCZ Trion 100 240GB-$95 9,561 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 113GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM11.2 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5542 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2314 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 1 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 192 192 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1055 (C2) HDA temperature 64 49 219044053028	57% Above average	Read 486 Write 156 Mixed 212 62% 284 MB/s	4K Read 22.4 4K Write 53.2 4K Mixed 7.55 72% 27.7 MB/s	DQ Read 220 DQ Write 133 DQ Mixed 34.9 64% 129 MB/s
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 57% Great: 83%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 1TB-$68 105,708 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 582GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 124744360 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3591 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 81 60 160122076 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8342 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3554 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 95 4295032876 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 56 538771488 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 873 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15846 (C2) HDA temperature 32 44 51539607584 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 627 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -132353712185792 (F1) Unknown 100 253 103911019767 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1615899563145	90.5% Outstanding	Read 140 Write 174 Mixed 114 106% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 5.36 4K Mixed 0.76 217% 2.31 MB/s
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 90.5% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2666C15D4/4G Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 KHX2666C15D4/4G Corsair CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 16GB 38 User benchmarks, average bench 91% 2733, 2733, 2733, 2733 MHz 4096, 4096, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	96.8% Outstanding	MC Read 34.9 MC Write 37 MC Mixed 31.9 99% 34.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.3 SC Write 38.6 SC Mixed 27.6 81% 28.5 GB/s	Latency 56.8 70% 56.8 ns
Poor: 75% ↑ This bench: 96.8% Great: 98%

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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	3,891x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,379x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	635x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,319x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	810x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	737x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 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	376x
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 $273	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