Asus Z170-E

Performance Results


Gaming 50% Yacht	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 39% Jet ski


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing way above expectations (92nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 8 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. This PC is likely operated by a technical master!
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 80%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	55.6% is a reasonable 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle the majority of recent games but it will struggle with resolutions greater than 1080p at ultra detail levels. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	124% 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-E (all builds)
Memory	13.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farger
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 27 '18 at 18:20
Run Duration	109 Seconds
Run User	NOR-User
Background CPU	5%

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PC Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	80% Very good	Memory 90.4 1-Core 106 2-Core 210 78% 136 Pts	4-Core 403 8-Core 403 54% 403 Pts	64-Core 407 25% 407 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 80% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1060-3GB-$119 627,793 User benchmarks, average bench 52% MSI(1462 8C95) CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 3GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	55.6% Above average	Lighting 68.9 Reflection 69.5 Parallax 60.3 56% 66.3 fps	MRender 69.8 Gravity 64.5 Splatting 66 55% 66.8 fps
Poor: 48% ↑ This bench: 55.6% Great: 56%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$49 58,154 User benchmarks, average bench 116% 182GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	124% Outstanding	Read 1,261 Write 529 Mixed 763 187% 851 MB/s	4K Read 18 4K Write 42.7 4K Mixed 30 88% 30.2 MB/s	DQ Read 267 DQ Write 317 DQ Mixed 95 126% 226 MB/s
Poor: 79% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 157%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC26 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 203902728 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 625 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 8507419 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 850 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 625 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 58 488439837 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 97 97 6502 (C2) HDA temperature 29 42 51539607581 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 24975234826816 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8390283476 (F2) Unknown 100 253 365935331979	107% Outstanding	Read 200 Write 172 Mixed 172 136% 182 MB/s	4K Read 0.73 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.2 86% 0.9 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston KHX2133C14D4/4G KHX2133C14D4/4G KHX2133C14/8G 16GB 116 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 2133, 2133, 2133 MHz 4096, 4096, 8192 MB Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	75.4% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 23.1 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 16 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 22.4 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 66.7 60% 66.7 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 75.4% Great: 75%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-E

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	624x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	517x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	167x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	296x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	217x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	156x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	79x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	79x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	52x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	84x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	64x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	62x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $443

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $64	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16