Asus Z170-P D3

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 57% Gunboat


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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 91.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	75.6% 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	228% 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	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.

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Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-P D3 (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 1.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180222
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jul 06 '20 at 16:47
Run Duration	155 Seconds
Run User	PRT-User
Background CPU	24%

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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 i5-6600K-$81 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	91.6% Outstanding	Memory 91 1-Core 137 2-Core 273 92% 167 Pts	4-Core 531 8-Core 532 71% 532 Pts	64-Core 493 30% 493 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 91.6% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1660S (Super)-$240 428,800 User benchmarks, average bench 71% Gigabyte(1458 4013) CLim: 2145 MHz, MLim: 3500 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 451.48 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	75.6% Very good	Lighting 93.8 Reflection 85.5 Parallax 82.2 76% 87.1 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 79.8 Splatting 77 74% 92.8 fps
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 76%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 120GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 580 302 299 292 294 291 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	228% Outstanding	Read 1,949 Write 1,503 Mixed 792 SusWrite 343 254% 1,147 MB/s	4K Read 55.7 4K Write 174 4K Mixed 60.7 255% 97 MB/s	DQ Read 1,116 DQ Write 1,249 DQ Mixed 747 683% 1,037 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 228% Great: 236%
Kingston SSDNow V300 120GB-$37 339,020 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 104GB free Firmware: 60AABBF0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 81 88 100 98 99 95 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	71.6% Very good	Read 347 Write 121 Mixed 188 SusWrite 93.4 41% 187 MB/s	4K Read 29.2 4K Write 112 4K Mixed 39.9 155% 60.5 MB/s	DQ Read 86.2 DQ Write 119 DQ Mixed 95 74% 100 MB/s
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 71.6% Great: 73%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 135GB free Firmware: 01.01V01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 80 81 80 80 79 80 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile)	47.8% Average	Read 86 Write 75.5 Mixed 78.7 SusWrite 79.9 60% 80 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 0.8 164% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 47.8% Great: 76%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 639GB free Firmware: CC43 SusWrite @10s intervals: 129 152 149 150 149 150 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile)	88.3% Excellent	Read 160 Write 134 Mixed 29.3 SusWrite 146 85% 117 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 5.2 4K Mixed 1.9 357% 2.77 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 88.3% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL RipjawsX DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GB 28,220 User benchmarks, average bench 49% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR3 clocked @ 1697 MHz Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	62.6% Good	MC Read 24 MC Write 23.1 MC Mixed 20 64% 22.4 GB/s	SC Read 12.1 SC Write 22.1 SC Mixed 14.1 46% 16.1 GB/s	Latency 65.7 61% 65.7 ns
Poor: 27% ↑ This bench: 62.6% Great: 61%

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

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Gaming 10%

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Desktop 70%

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Workstation 9%

Tree trunk

Motherboard: Asus Z170-P D3 - $150

CPU
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	220x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	133x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	89x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	78x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	59x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	58x

SSD
MTFDDAV256TBN-1AR15ABHA 256GBCrucialBench 74%, 4,569 samples	36x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	27x
BX500 240GBCrucial $29Bench 56%, 142,801 samples	24x

RAM
Fury DDR3 1866 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 59%, 122,541 samples	33x
Fury DDR3 1600 C10 2x8GBHyperXBench 54%, 77,652 samples	33x
Vengeance Pro DDR3 2400 C11 2x8GBCorsairBench 58%, 40,596 samples	14x

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Value: 102% - Outstanding

Total price: $231

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