Asrock Z170A-X1

Performance Results


Gaming 56% Gunboat	Desktop 87% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 84%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	61.4% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	91.4% 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	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asrock Z170A-X1 (all builds)
Memory	29.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20160419
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Oct 22 '16 at 06:09
Run Duration	399 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (70^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.65 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	84% Excellent	Memory 89.1 1-Core 117 2-Core 235 83% 147 Pts	4-Core 425 8-Core 650 67% 537 Pts	64-Core 649 40% 649 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 84% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD R9 390X-$340 26,573 User benchmarks, average bench 54% MSI(1462 2015) Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 21.19.151.3 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	61.4% Good	Lighting 77.1 Reflection 65 Parallax 99.9 63% 80.7 fps	MRender 63.5 Gravity 63.9 Splatting 82.3 58% 69.9 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 61.4% Great: 57%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 411GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 32 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 24 (B1) Unknown 99 99 1 (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 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 9 (F1) Unknown 99 99 796964304	91.4% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 405 Mixed 417 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 38.8 4K Write 89.4 4K Mixed 22.9 136% 50.4 MB/s	DQ Read 40 DQ Write 279 DQ Mixed 119 104% 146 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 91.4% Great: 134%
WL3000GSA6472E 3TB 180 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 162 10791 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 738 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2082 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 325 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 53 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 684 (C2) HDA temperature 121 104 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	95.4% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 159 Mixed 142 119% 158 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 3.23 4K Mixed 0.26 125% 1.46 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 95.4% Great: 95%
JMicron 240GB 50GB free, PID 0539 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	76.6% Very good	Read 42.1 Write 42.7 Mixed 42.5 55% 42.4 MB/s	4K Read 11.5 4K Write 19 4K Mixed 7.89 958% 12.8 MB/s	DQ Read 12.6 DQ Write 20.6 DQ Mixed 8.22 1,028% 13.8 MB/s

313 User benchmarks, average bench 7% 4GB free, PID 0165 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	9.38% Terrible	Read 34.1 Write 8.68 Mixed 0.8 13% 14.5 MB/s	4K Read 10.7 4K Write 0.01 4K Mixed 0.01 40% 3.56 MB/s
Poor: 4% ↑ This bench: 9.38% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Unknown TEAMGROUP-UD4-3000 4x8GB 5,022 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (15^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.1% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 27.6 MC Mixed 21 71% 25 GB/s	SC Read 17.2 SC Write 29.9 SC Mixed 24.4 68% 23.8 GB/s	Latency 68.4 58% 68.4 ns
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 72.1% Great: 105%

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Gaming 84%

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Desktop 85%

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Workstation 71%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z170A-X1

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	36x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	21x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	19x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	21x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	17x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	12x

SSD
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	7x
WDS100T2B0A-00SM50 1TBWDCBench 98%, 74,123 samples	7x
OCZ TL100 240GBToshiba $56Bench 63%, 10,555 samples	5x

RAM
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	6x
CL16-16-16 D4-2400 2x8GBUnknownBench 71%, 17,846 samples	6x
CT16G4DFD8213.C16FAD 1x16GBCrucialBench 38%, 1,141 samples	6x

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Value: 68% - Good

Total price: $608

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $269	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 $45	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