Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 64% Destroyer	Desktop 95% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 55% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (64th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 36 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 94.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	61.7% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	70.3% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	24GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 24GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	21.7 GB free of 24 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit färger, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit färger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 07 '16 at 17:21
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	SWE-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (64^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, turbo 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.6% Outstanding	Memory 94.9 1-Core 138 2-Core 259 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 508 8-Core 734 78% 621 Pts	64-Core 763 47% 763 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.6% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1060-6GB-$117 1,368,019 User benchmarks, average bench 56% Asus(1043 85A6) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx Ver. 21.21.13.7570 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	61.7% Good	Lighting 77.2 Reflection 78 Parallax 67.5 63% 74.2 fps	MRender 71.7 Gravity 71.4 Splatting 73.9 59% 72.3 fps
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 61.7% Great: 60%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4474 Performing as expected (42^nd percentile)	4.29% Terrible	Lighting 7.97 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 7.97 6% 9.13 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.29% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 85GB free Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 707 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 187 (64) Unknown 100 100 638608 (65) Unknown 100 100 153408 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 135 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 383 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 608 (B7) Unknown 100 100 7 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 167505166369 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1049 (EA) Unknown 100 100 719 (F1) Unknown 100 100 875 (F2) Unknown 100 100 344 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0	61.9% Good	Read 463 Write 198 Mixed 222 64% 294 MB/s	4K Read 23.7 4K Write 52.9 4K Mixed 9.23 76% 28.6 MB/s	DQ Read 288 DQ Write 150 DQ Mixed 6.97 62% 148 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 82%
SanDisk Ultra Plus 128GB-$75 16,709 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 73GB free (System drive) Firmware: X2306RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 7624 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2391 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 18 (A8) Unknown 100 100 228 (A9) Unknown 100 100 133 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 131 (AE) Unknown 100 100 246 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 42 180389675043 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1060 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 17169 (F1) Unknown 253 253 9290 (F2) Unknown 253 253 10211 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	70.3% Very good	Read 420 Write 269 Mixed 318 74% 336 MB/s	4K Read 24.9 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 14.2 113% 48.8 MB/s	DQ Read 27.3 DQ Write 189 DQ Mixed 13.7 38% 76.5 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 70.3% Great: 91%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 608GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 192 185 6375 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6211 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 84 84 12093 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3959 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 450 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 146 146 163888 (C2) HDA temperature 110 100 37 (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	49.1% Average	Read 84.5 Write 86.6 Mixed 83.9 64% 85 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.21 81% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK16GX4M2A2666C16 CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 CMK8GX4M2A2666C16 24GB 16 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 2747, 2747, 2747, 2747 MHz 8192, 8192, 4096, 4096 MB Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	93.5% Outstanding	MC Read 33.9 MC Write 35 MC Mixed 29.8 94% 32.9 GB/s	SC Read 21 SC Write 39.2 SC Mixed 28.8 85% 29.7 GB/s	Latency 57.5 70% 57.5 ns
Poor: 47% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 93%

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

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $200

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,894x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,381x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	639x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,322x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	811x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	738x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	600x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	557x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	230x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	550x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	377x
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 $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 $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