Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing GPU
Gaming 0% Incomplete	Desktop 0% Incomplete	Workstation 0% Incomplete


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 76.6%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Boot Drive	66.5% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait times.
Memory	8GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's sufficient for the vast majority of games. 8GB is also enough for moderate file and system caches which result in a very responsive system.
OS Version	Although Windows 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	5.7 GB free of 8 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160630
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 18 '18 at 11:35
Run Duration	121 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing as expected (60^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6400-$79 171,457 User benchmarks, average bench 61% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 2.7 GHz, turbo 3.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	76.6% Very good	Memory 86.7 1-Core 98.3 2-Core 195 73% 127 Pts	4-Core 386 8-Core 383 52% 385 Pts	64-Core 392 24% 392 Pts
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 76.6% Great: 71%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
ATI Radeon HD 2600-XT 1,081 User benchmarks, average bench 2% Dell(1028 2542) 256MB Driver: aticfx64.dll Ver. 8.970.100.9001 Relative performance n/a - atypical extreme
Poor: 2% Great: 2%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Spcc Solid State Disk 120GB 22,489 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 22GB free (System drive) Firmware: V2.8 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (75^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 3775 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 867 (A1) Unknown 100 100 0 (A4) Unknown 100 100 297211 (A5) Unknown 100 100 165 (A6) Unknown 100 100 70 (A7) Unknown 100 100 153 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 42 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 18619 (F2) Unknown 100 100 8874 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0 (F4) Unknown 100 100 0 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 0 (FB) Unknown 100 100 0 (FC) Unknown 100 100 0 (FD) Unknown 100 100 0 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	66.5% Good	Read 485 Write 357 Mixed 408 93% 417 MB/s	4K Read 25.6 4K Write 64.8 4K Mixed 3.16 77% 31.2 MB/s	DQ Read 26.9 DQ Write 170 DQ Mixed 2.91 30% 66.5 MB/s
Poor: 36% ↑ This bench: 66.5% Great: 83%
Seagate Momentus 2.5" 1TB 266,123 User benchmarks, average bench 42% 427GB free Firmware: 2AR10001 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 5524 (02) Throughput performance 252 252 0 (03) Spinup time 89 86 3474 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7851 (05) Reallocated sector count 252 252 0 (07) Seek error rate 252 252 0 (08) Seek timer performance 252 252 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 13244 (0A) Spinup retry count 252 252 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 375 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6803 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 487 (C0) Power-off retract count 252 252 0 (C2) HDA temperature 64 38 270583791640 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 0 (C4) Reallocation count 252 252 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 252 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 252 252 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 1 1 56663 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 375 (E1) Load/Unload cycle count 55 55 463291	46.5% Average	Read 81.7 Write 80.3 Mixed 78.3 60% 80.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.35 4K Write 1.51 4K Mixed 0.26 71% 0.7 MB/s
Poor: 14% ↑ This bench: 46.5% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 2x4GB 16,490 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 8GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (3^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	42.2% Average	MC Read 14.8 MC Write 15 MC Mixed 12.6 40% 14.1 GB/s	SC Read 11.6 SC Write 14 SC Mixed 12.9 37% 12.8 GB/s	Latency 70.8 56% 70.8 ns
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 42.2% Great: 98%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	777x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	362x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	80x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	74x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $30	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