Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 77% Battleship	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


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 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 79%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	7.02% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	61.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	8.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.2 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170629
Uptime	1.1 Days
Run Date	Nov 05 '17 at 17:53
Run Duration	296 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	2%

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 i5-6600K-$120 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	79% Very good	Memory 84.6 1-Core 125 2-Core 246 84% 152 Pts	4-Core 420 8-Core 443 57% 432 Pts	64-Core 466 29% 466 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 79% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64 Ver. 22.20.16.4771 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.02% Terrible	Lighting 7.37 Reflection 10.5 Parallax 7.19 6% 8.34 fps	MRender 10.1 Gravity 6.73 Splatting 14.7 9% 10.5 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.02% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Ocz-vertex2 3.5 120GB 4,046 User benchmarks, average bench 43% 50GB free Firmware: 1.37 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (50^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 156744379 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 82102594877281 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1992 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 280 (B1) Unknown 0 0 1 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 117 99 156744379 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 6080 (EA) Unknown 0 0 6976 (F1) Unknown 0 0 6976 (F2) Unknown 0 0 17984	41.7% Average	Read 207 Write 75.8 Mixed 89.6 27% 124 MB/s	4K Read 21.5 4K Write 64 4K Mixed 13.8 84% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 116 DQ Write 77.7 DQ Mixed 7.57 30% 67 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 41.7% Great: 55%
OCZ Vertex 3 120GB-$42 25,948 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 35GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2.25 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 116 131597122 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 57 57 -26139170925191 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1098 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 314 (B1) Unknown 0 0 4 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 30 30 128850984990 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 131597122 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 131597122 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 131597122 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 98 98 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 36118 (EA) Unknown 0 0 24832 (F1) Unknown 0 0 24832 (F2) Unknown 0 0 35515	61.5% Good	Read 486 Write 123 Mixed 197 58% 269 MB/s	4K Read 21.7 4K Write 76.8 4K Mixed 17.1 95% 38.5 MB/s	DQ Read 153 DQ Write 142 DQ Mixed 43.1 61% 112 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 61.5% Great: 82%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$98 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 1.5TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 180 5983 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 80 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2629 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 253 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 73 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 21 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4434 (C2) HDA temperature 116 113 34 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	79.2% Very good	Read 148 Write 128 Mixed 127 101% 134 MB/s	4K Read 0.53 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.19 81% 0.93 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 88%
WD Red 3TB (2012)-$98 68,726 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 2TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 179 177 6033 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 870 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 11078 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 270 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 60 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 10399 (C2) HDA temperature 115 111 35 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	72% Very good	Read 123 Write 128 Mixed 122 94% 124 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.29 109% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 88%
WDC WD50 00AADS-00S9B0 500GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 27% 318GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	36.7% Below average	Read 79.4 Write 84.6 Mixed 77.2 104% 80.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2.15 4K Mixed 0.28 85% 1.02 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 36.7% Great: 37%
WDC WD32 00BJKT-00F4T0 320GB 166GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	31.7% Below average	Read 68.9 Write 72.4 Mixed 66.6 90% 69.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 1.87 4K Mixed 0.31 77% 0.97 MB/s

WDC WD32 00BJKT-00F4T0 320GB 150GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	31.7% Below average	Read 68.1 Write 71 Mixed 63.9 87% 67.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.62 4K Write 2 4K Mixed 0.36 83% 0.99 MB/s

ST925082 7AS 250GB 2 User benchmarks, average bench 21% 31GB free, PID 0551 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples	21.1% Poor	Read 54 Write 51.7 Mixed 47.5 65% 51.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.29 32% 0.46 MB/s
Poor: 21% ↑ This bench: 21.1% Great: 22%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$31 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2197 MHz Performing as expected (52^nd percentile)	75.6% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 29 MC Mixed 24.8 77% 27 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28.5 SC Mixed 21.8 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 72.4 55% 72.4 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 75.6% Great: 95%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-A - $270

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $163Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	3,955x
Core i5-6600KIntel $120Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,429x
Core i7-6700Intel $163Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	649x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,347x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	825x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	748x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	611x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	560x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	236x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	556x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $38Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	385x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	303x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $859

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $171	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $150
Intel Core i5-13600K $270	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $388	WD Black SN850X M.2 1TB $90
Intel Core i5-12400F $110	Nvidia RTX 4070 $520	Crucial T700 M.2 4TB $353