Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 113% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 96% Nuclear submarine


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 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 93.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	124% 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	79.4% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170207
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 19 '18 at 16:43
Run Duration	176 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	11%

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 i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	93.9% Outstanding	Memory 92.1 1-Core 143 2-Core 280 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 515 8-Core 763 80% 639 Pts	64-Core 744 46% 744 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 93.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$499 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Gigabyte(1458 374C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (55^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	124% Outstanding	Lighting 171 Reflection 194 Parallax 191 139% 185 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 172 Splatting 123 113% 140 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 124% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung MZNTD128HAGM-000L1 128GB 321 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 80GB free Firmware: DXT23L0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5063 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 3067 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 93 93 80 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 3120 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 64 48 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 253 253 0 (E9) Unknown 199 199 1850820 (EA) Unknown 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (EC) Unknown 99 99 38 (ED) Unknown 99 99 80 (EE) Unknown 100 100 0	69.5% Good	Read 503 Write 128 Mixed 105 53% 245 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 99.4 4K Mixed 10.6 111% 46.6 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 28.5 74% 164 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 69.5% Great: 67%
PNY SSD2SC120G1SA754D117-820 120GB 1,827 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 26GB free (System drive) Firmware: N0815B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (81^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 2167 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1556 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 211 (B1) Unknown 0 0 401 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 33 100 33 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 70776 (C4) Reallocation count 98 98 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 95 (E7) Temperature 96 100 33 (E9) Unknown 0 0 16 (EA) Unknown 0 0 179 (F1) Unknown 0 0 13382 (F2) Unknown 0 0 10604	79.4% Very good	Read 517 Write 157 Mixed 239 66% 304 MB/s	4K Read 28.4 4K Write 94.7 4K Mixed 30.9 133% 51.3 MB/s	DQ Read 246 DQ Write 157 DQ Mixed 61.1 83% 155 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.4% Great: 83%
WDC WD40EZRZ-00WN9B0 1TB 1GB free Firmware: ST6OA3AA Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Relative performance n/a - insufficient samples - Ensure that this drive is connected to a SATA 3.0 port with a SATA 3.0 cable (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 131 131 116 (03) Spinup time 131 131 25798050233 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 5775 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 123 123 34 (09) Power-on hours count 94 94 45903 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3847 (C0) Power-off retract count 86 86 17198 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 86 86 17198 (C2) HDA temperature 166 166 236224249892 (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 28	8.54% Terrible	Read 74.9 Write 81.4 Mixed 79 18% 78.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.42 4K Mixed 0.38 2% 0.76 MB/s

WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 185 173 7741 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 662 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7700 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 593 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 56 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 65325 (C2) HDA temperature 120 98 32 (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	55.7% Above average	Read 88.9 Write 105 Mixed 85.1 70% 93 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 2.08 4K Mixed 0.17 80% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 55.7% Great: 101%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
PNY 8GBF2X04JEEEXX-12-K 2x8GB 73 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (5^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.9% Average	MC Read 14.7 MC Write 14.6 MC Mixed 12.3 40% 13.9 GB/s	SC Read 12.7 SC Write 15.5 SC Mixed 15.5 42% 14.6 GB/s	Latency 63.9 63% 63.9 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 42.9% Great: 89%

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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 $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,736x
Core i5-6600KIntel $49Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,732x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,062x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,206x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,394x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,269x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	901x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	800x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $137Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	326x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $50Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	825x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	576x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	563x

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Total price: $893

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