Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 53% Yacht	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 46% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 88.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	52.4% 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	85.3% 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 (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 04 '17 at 06:51
Run Duration	187 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (68^th 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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	88.5% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 128 2-Core 254 89% 159 Pts	4-Core 443 8-Core 731 72% 587 Pts	64-Core 670 41% 670 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
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)	7.82% Terrible	Lighting 8.33 Reflection 12.5 Parallax 8.03 7% 9.63 fps	MRender 10 Gravity 7.4 Splatting 16.6 10% 11.4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.82% Great: 6%
AMD RX 480-$75 261,163 User benchmarks, average bench 46% Sapphire(174B E347) CLim: 1306 MHz, MLim: 2000 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.7 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	52.4% Above average	Lighting 66.3 Reflection 66.1 Parallax 80.5 54% 71 fps	MRender 67.2 Gravity 62.6 Splatting 53.6 49% 61.1 fps
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 52.4% Great: 53%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Pro 256GB-$115 141,929 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 124GB free Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4506 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1215 (B1) Unknown 99 99 2 (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 68 55 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 1024108306	123% Outstanding	Read 502 Write 490 Mixed 500 111% 497 MB/s	4K Read 32.7 4K Write 128 4K Mixed 53.6 186% 71.4 MB/s	DQ Read 334 DQ Write 348 DQ Mixed 18 103% 233 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 123% Great: 124%
Samsung 850 Evo 120GB-$80 69,224 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 2 (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 66 62 34 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 99 99 70791386	85.3% Excellent	Read 503 Write 404 Mixed 419 98% 442 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 102 4K Mixed 19.2 130% 51.7 MB/s	DQ Read 30 DQ Write 102 DQ Mixed 110 72% 80.7 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 115%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 2TB (2016)-$79 133,734 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 366GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 116 99 109607352 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 954 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 899707 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1614 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 865 (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 69 61 521863199 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1005 (C2) HDA temperature 31 40 77309411359 (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 78451872630374 (F1) Unknown 100 253 3519065483 (F2) Unknown 100 253 271910922	74% Very good	Read 125 Write 131 Mixed 107 91% 121 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 5.58 4K Mixed 0.85 227% 2.38 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 74% Great: 110%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 227GB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (37^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 139 139 71 (03) Spinup time 141 141 25785401644 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2403 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 126 126 32 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 15961 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2394 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 2524 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 98 98 2524 (C2) HDA temperature 176 176 214749413410 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 2	82% Excellent	Read 149 Write 136 Mixed 152 110% 146 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.2 85% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 82% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)	94.1% Outstanding	MC Read 36.5 MC Write 36.4 MC Mixed 26.5 95% 33.1 GB/s	SC Read 22 SC Write 38.1 SC Mixed 29.8 86% 30 GB/s	Latency 57.9 69% 57.9 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 94.1% Great: 104%

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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 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,615x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,671x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,043x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,164x
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	785x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	320x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	806x
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 $273	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 $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	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