Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 85% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 74% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (53rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 47 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 93.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	87.9% 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	67.5% 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.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.5 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170426
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 01 '17 at 21:23
Run Duration	263 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	1%

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PC Performing as expected (53^rd 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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	93.7% Outstanding	Memory 94 1-Core 149 2-Core 270 96% 171 Pts	4-Core 503 8-Core 786 80% 644 Pts	64-Core 811 50% 811 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 330C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.31 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 113 Reflection 114 Parallax 98.2 92% 108 fps	MRender 96 Gravity 99.7 Splatting 97.4 80% 97.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.41% Terrible	Lighting 7.77 Reflection 11.5 Parallax 7.59 6% 8.95 fps	MRender 10.2 Gravity 6.93 Splatting 15.9 10% 11 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.41% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 176GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 17241 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 73 (A5) Unknown 100 100 12917014956 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 39 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 13 (AE) Unknown 100 100 49 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 78 39 167504379926 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 304965026133 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 12573 (EA) Unknown 100 100 18143 (F1) Unknown 253 253 13085 (F2) Unknown 253 253 11168 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	64.9% Good	Read 494 Write 215 Mixed 196 66% 302 MB/s	4K Read 28.2 4K Write 80.6 4K Mixed 13.1 102% 40.6 MB/s	DQ Read 35.8 DQ Write 88.9 DQ Mixed 32.8 34% 52.5 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 64.9% Great: 107%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 49GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 26651 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 119 (B1) Unknown 96 1 209 (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 72 51 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 48 (F1) Unknown 99 99 75374571811	67.5% Good	Read 528 Write 127 Mixed 185 60% 280 MB/s	4K Read 35.6 4K Write 78.9 4K Mixed 20.6 122% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 36.9 DQ Write 96.4 DQ Mixed 21.9 30% 51.7 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 702GB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	96.9% Outstanding	Read 173 Write 165 Mixed 153 123% 164 MB/s	4K Read 0.98 4K Write 2.4 4K Mixed 0.31 119% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 96.9% Great: 109%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$50 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 446GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 114 99 64507904 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1825 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 47 45 1258438210273 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6848 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 23 (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 70 59 521994270 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 94 94 12476 (C2) HDA temperature 30 41 68719476766 (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 -25400436584804 (F1) Unknown 100 253 19925496201 (F2) Unknown 100 253 48172419279	71% Very good	Read 108 Write 139 Mixed 131 95% 126 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 5.28 4K Mixed 0.4 157% 2.01 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 108%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 311GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (30^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 253 162 2075 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1110 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 4410 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 15 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 12 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 178 178 67241 (C2) HDA temperature 124 113 26 (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	61.2% Good	Read 107 Write 106 Mixed 103 79% 105 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 2.61 4K Mixed 0.28 121% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 61.2% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2473 MHz Performing below potential (33^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	81.7% Excellent	MC Read 30 MC Write 31.6 MC Mixed 25.5 83% 29 GB/s	SC Read 18.8 SC Write 30.2 SC Mixed 22 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 59.9 67% 59.9 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 97%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,620x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,671x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,044x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,166x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,381x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,247x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	884x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	786x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	320x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	807x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	565x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	559x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

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