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Asus Z170-A

Performance Results


Gaming 110% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (81st percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 19 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 95.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	114% is an outstanding 3D score, it's the bee's knees. This GPU can handle almost all 3D games at very high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	98.5% 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	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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-A (all builds)
Memory	12.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160128
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 25 '16 at 04:05
Run Duration	104 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (81^st 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-$85 588,978 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)	95.3% Outstanding	Memory 93.9 1-Core 133 2-Core 266 92% 164 Pts	4-Core 524 8-Core 728 79% 626 Pts	64-Core 738 46% 738 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 95.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Gigabyte(1458 36FE) Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6839 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 153 Reflection 161 Parallax 138 125% 151 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 146 Splatting 114 103% 127 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$85 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 337GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 101 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 21 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 60 37 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 1 (F1) Unknown 99 99 705954020	98.5% Outstanding	Read 500 Write 398 Mixed 414 97% 437 MB/s	4K Read 41.5 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 38.8 170% 62.7 MB/s	DQ Read 35.3 DQ Write 101 DQ Mixed 26.8 32% 54.3 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 98.5% Great: 134%
Seagate Desktop HDD 5TB (2015)-$634 281 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 4.5TB free Firmware: CC48 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 102 100 4892770 (03) Spinup time 94 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 5892 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4 (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 62 60 656801830 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 26 (C2) HDA temperature 38 40 115964117030 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 42 42 4892770 (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 -124803159687167 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6192106 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4108541	116% Outstanding	Read 206 Write 198 Mixed 175 145% 193 MB/s	4K Read 1.29 4K Write 2.38 4K Mixed 0.38 140% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 116% Great: 116%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x8GB-$37 131,007 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2667 MHz Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile)	89.5% Excellent	MC Read 32.6 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 27.9 90% 31.5 GB/s	SC Read 20.3 SC Write 36.1 SC Mixed 28.5 81% 28.3 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 89.5% Great: 95%

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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 - $256

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $85Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	4,083x
Core i5-6600KIntel $93Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	2,495x
Core i7-6700Intel $160Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	667x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	1,398x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	851x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	770x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	630x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	578x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	243x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $42Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	572x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	392x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $35Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	310x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $761

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