Asus H170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 77.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	10.9% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	73.4% 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.

High background CPU (28%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus H170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170801
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Dec 11 '18 at 02:40
Run Duration	667 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	28%

PC Performing as expected (58^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6500-$67 241,476 User benchmarks, average bench 64% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.2 GHz, turbo 3.3 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	77.2% Very good	Memory 82.3 1-Core 99 2-Core 203 73% 128 Pts	4-Core 416 8-Core 423 56% 420 Pts	64-Core 416 26% 416 Pts
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 77.2% Great: 73%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GeForce GTX 555 717 User benchmarks, average bench 11% Nvidia(10DE 0958) 1GB CLim: 736 MHz, MLim: 957 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below expectations (31^st percentile)	10.9% Very poor	Lighting 12.9 Reflection 15.3 Parallax 11 10% 13.1 fps	MRender 16.7 Gravity 12.8 Splatting 13.7 12% 14.4 fps
Poor: 10% ↑ This bench: 10.9% Great: 12%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 530 Series 240GB-$149 16,872 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 72GB free (System drive) Firmware: DC32 SusWrite @10s intervals: 189 183 201 217 212 225 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th percentile)	73.4% Very good	Read 336 Write 134 Mixed 260 SusWrite 204 52% 234 MB/s	4K Read 28 4K Write 63.3 4K Mixed 33.1 118% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 214 DQ Mixed 160 143% 217 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 73.4% Great: 91%
WD Black NVMe PCIe M.2 500GB (2018)-$37 23,087 User benchmarks, average bench 233% 441GB free Firmware: 101110WD Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 1042 834 832 831 825 809 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile)	219% Outstanding	Read 1600 Write 1,503 Mixed 1,369 SusWrite 862 299% 1,334 MB/s	4K Read 31.6 4K Write 95.7 4K Mixed 48.2 160% 58.5 MB/s	DQ Read 1,349 DQ Write 1,045 DQ Mixed 1,176 886% 1,190 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 219% Great: 284%
Toshiba X300 6TB-$78 5,594 User benchmarks, average bench 87% 4TB free Firmware: FS2A SusWrite @10s intervals: 175 183 177 177 182 179 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 172 Write 163 Mixed 64.5 SusWrite 179 105% 145 MB/s	4K Read 5.8 4K Write 2.5 4K Mixed 1.1 410% 3.13 MB/s
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 2TB-$50 815,515 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 1TB free Firmware: CC29 SusWrite @10s intervals: 11 7.3 4.6 10 8.5 MB/s Relative performance (0^th percentile)	3.77% Terrible	Read 5.5 Write 3.8 Mixed 7.2 SusWrite 7.6 4% 6.03 MB/s	4K Read 0 4K Write 0.2 4K Mixed 0 4% 0.07 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 3.77% Great: 114%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 2133 C15 4x4GB 1,126 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile)	77.3% Very good	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 29.9 MC Mixed 25.5 80% 27.9 GB/s	SC Read 16.1 SC Write 28.7 SC Mixed 21.6 63% 22.1 GB/s	Latency 76.4 52% 76.4 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 77.3% Great: 101%

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Desktop 79%

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Workstation 52%

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Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING - $130

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	449x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	362x
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	327x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	230x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	210x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	185x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	135x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	70x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $95Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	38x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	122x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	90x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	83x

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Value: 76% - Very good

Total price: $667

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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