Asus Z170M-PLUS/BR

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 93% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (76th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 24 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 101%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is outstanding.
Graphics	93% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170M-PLUS/BR (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170109
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	Nov 17 '18 at 21:23
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	BRA-User
Background CPU	3%

PC Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-7700K-$250 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 150 2-Core 298 100% 181 Pts	4-Core 566 8-Core 827 87% 697 Pts	64-Core 828 51% 828 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3233) CLim: 1641 MHz, MLim: 1908 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 399.24 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93% Outstanding	Lighting 120 Reflection 126 Parallax 113 98% 120 fps	MRender 104 Gravity 110 Splatting 97 84% 104 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93% Great: 87%

Drive	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: CC45 SusWrite @10s intervals: 89 84 101 112 61 50 MB/s Performing way below expectations (12^th percentile)	67.2% Good	Read 151 Write 151 Mixed 78.7 SusWrite 82.9 85% 116 MB/s	4K Read 0.8 4K Write 1.6 4K Mixed 1 174% 1.13 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 67.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX DDR4 2400 C12 2x8GB 7,412 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2533 MHz Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.8% Excellent	MC Read 31.9 MC Write 33 MC Mixed 27 88% 30.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.9 SC Write 35.2 SC Mixed 28.1 79% 27.7 GB/s	Latency 53.7 74% 53.7 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 90%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

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

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Gaming 41%

Speed boat

Desktop 74%

Battleship

Workstation 33%

Sail boat

Motherboard: Asus Z170M-PLUS/BR

CPU
Core i5-7400Intel $110Bench 64%, 234,266 samples	30x
Core i7-7700KIntel $250Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	28x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	24x
GTX 1050-TiNvidia $59Bench 29%, 946,701 samples	17x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	17x

SSD
A400 480GBKingston $38Bench 74%, 237,487 samples	20x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	17x
SSDNow V300 240GBKingston $35Bench 64%, 176,713 samples	7x

RAM
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	13x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	7x
KHX2400C15/8G Team Group Inc. Team-Elite-2400 16GBKingstonBench 72%, 19 samples	6x

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Value: 89% - Excellent

Total price: $265

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