Asus Z170-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	85.2% 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	67.3% 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

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-PRO (all builds)
Memory	13.2 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit cores
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170125
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 30 '17 at 17:40
Run Duration	167 Seconds
Run User	ROU-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.9 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	85.1% Excellent	Memory 92.4 1-Core 125 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 457 8-Core 413 59% 435 Pts	64-Core 505 31% 505 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 85.1% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4992) CLim: 1513 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 388.71 Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	85.2% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 116 Parallax 104 90% 110 fps	MRender 96.3 Gravity 102 Splatting 82.9 76% 93.6 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HFS256G39MND-2300A 256GB 2,675 User benchmarks, average bench 64% 7GB free (System drive) Firmware: 20200L00 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 166 166 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 253 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 5139 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2205 (64) Unknown 100 100 3353434 (AA) Unknown 100 100 101 (AB) Unknown 253 253 0 (AC) Unknown 253 253 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 59 (AF) Unknown 253 253 0 (B0) Unknown 253 253 0 (B1) Unknown 99 99 50 (B2) Unknown 100 100 14 (B4) Unknown 100 100 4251 (B7) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 21 (BC) Unknown 253 253 0 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 253 0 (C2) HDA temperature 32 0 68723212320 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 99 1444455108 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (D4) Unknown 100 100 18498 (E7) Temperature 253 253 0 (EA) Unknown 100 100 12566 (F1) Unknown 100 100 9307 (F2) Unknown 100 100 14464 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 36	67.3% Good	Read 490 Write 221 Mixed 356 78% 355 MB/s	4K Read 23.3 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 13.8 109% 47.5 MB/s	DQ Read 23.1 DQ Write 113 DQ Mixed 14.1 27% 50.1 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 67.3% Great: 80%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 931GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (62^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 71 66 12845986 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 55 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 10099 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 45 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 13 (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 77 71 387121175 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 56 (C2) HDA temperature 23 14 60129542167 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 8 7 12845986 (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 14856291876895 (F1) Unknown 100 253 8261804 (F2) Unknown 100 253 4584182	100% Outstanding	Read 186 Write 163 Mixed 142 122% 164 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.26 104% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 113%
Toshiba HDWD105 500GB-$49 9,420 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 465GB free Firmware: MS1OA8J0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 12884901888 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 0 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 2 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 2 (C2) HDA temperature 240 240 107375427609 (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 0	106% Outstanding	Read 201 Write 168 Mixed 167 134% 179 MB/s	4K Read 1.04 4K Write 2.02 4K Mixed 0.22 105% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 104%
WD Green 1TB (2009)-$63 103,919 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 49GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 167 162 6625 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5709 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 75 75 18614 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3066 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 241 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 5707 (C2) HDA temperature 126 102 24 (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 36 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	33.5% Below average	Read 53.2 Write 63.2 Mixed 51.5 42% 56 MB/s	4K Read 0.4 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 0.36 98% 1 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 33.5% Great: 57%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston 9905678-041.A00G 4x4GB 55 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	78.3% Very good	MC Read 27.9 MC Write 29.8 MC Mixed 25.1 79% 27.6 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 30.1 SC Mixed 24.3 68% 24 GB/s	Latency 63.3 63% 63.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 78%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-PRO - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	517x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	126x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	80x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	171x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	105x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	71x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	56x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GBCorsair $110Bench 84%, 34,441 samples	34x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $657

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16