Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 86% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (50th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 50 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components.
Processor	With a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 81.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	95.7% 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	111% is an exceptional SSD score. This drive is suitable for heavy workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and allow for fast transfers of multi-gigabyte files.
Memory	32GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 32GB will also allow for large file and system caches, virtual machine hosting, software development, video editing and batch multimedia processing.
OS Version	Although Windows 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 9 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (40%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	25.7 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	5 Days
Run Date	Nov 25 '17 at 15:52
Run Duration	395 Seconds
Run User	SGP-User
Background CPU	40%

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PC Performing as expected (50^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 Performing as expected (49^th percentile)	81.3% Excellent	Memory 86.9 1-Core 119 2-Core 231 82% 146 Pts	4-Core 407 8-Core 670 66% 539 Pts	64-Core 628 39% 628 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.69 Performing below potential (13^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	95.7% Outstanding	Lighting 122 Reflection 115 Parallax 124 100% 120 fps	MRender 97 Gravity 123 Splatting 102 88% 107 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 95.7% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$94 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 153GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5681 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 274 (B1) Unknown 96 96 82 (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 59 44 41 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 42 (F1) Unknown 99 99 79774254294	111% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 398 Mixed 411 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 45.9 4K Write 105 4K Mixed 39.1 175% 63.1 MB/s	DQ Read 356 DQ Write 277 DQ Mixed 111 139% 248 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Adata SP900 256GB-$300 9,430 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 29GB free Firmware: 5.0. Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (3^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 3011369 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 76 76 -97744865700635 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 679 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 377 (B1) Unknown 0 0 8 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 40 66 1005026672680 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3011369 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3011369 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3011369 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 90 90 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 97394 (EA) Unknown 0 0 66484 (F1) Unknown 0 0 66484 (F2) Unknown 0 0 18123	49.1% Average	Read 360 Write 149 Mixed 188 51% 232 MB/s	4K Read 26.6 4K Write 22.8 4K Mixed 17 74% 22.1 MB/s	DQ Read 95.6 DQ Write 54.9 DQ Mixed 30.5 35% 60.4 MB/s
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 49.1% Great: 89%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1TB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 171 165 6450 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2237 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 83 83 12456 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 337 (10) Unknown 255 0 -32693916954855 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 87 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 2149 (C2) HDA temperature 113 96 37 (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	140% Outstanding	Read 248 Write 238 Mixed 237 182% 241 MB/s	4K Read 3.5 4K Write 4.35 4K Mixed 0.51 283% 2.79 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 140% Great: 112%
Seagate Backup+ Hub BK 8TB 1,841 User benchmarks, average bench 52% 4TB free, PID ab38 Operating at USB 3.1 Speed Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)	60.7% Good	Read 73.1 Write 120 Mixed 66.8 116% 86.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.5 4K Write 7.68 4K Mixed 0.32 278% 3.17 MB/s
Poor: 19% ↑ This bench: 60.7% Great: 75%
WD Elements 2TB 35,768 User benchmarks, average bench 24% 151GB free, PID 1048 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	31.2% Below average	Read 82.4 Write 65.3 Mixed 61.5 86% 69.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.27 4K Write 1.61 4K Mixed 0.15 61% 0.68 MB/s
Poor: 11% ↑ This bench: 31.2% Great: 44%
General USB Flash Disk 32GB 207 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 25GB free, PID 8003 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing above expectations (77^th percentile)	4.51% Terrible	Read 17.7 Write 3.87 Mixed 4.61 8% 8.74 MB/s	4K Read 4.59 4K Write 0.002 4K Mixed 0.002 17% 1.53 MB/s
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 4.51% Great: 8%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 213 User benchmarks, average bench 74% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (17^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	66.5% Good	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 26.3 MC Mixed 22.1 68% 23.8 GB/s	SC Read 11.9 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 20 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 70.6 57% 70.6 ns
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 86%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	792x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	286x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	366x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	173x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	144x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	76x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $446

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $289	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	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