Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 79% Battleship	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 68% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (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 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	84.2% 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	71% 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.

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Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.7 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors, 1440 x 900 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170426
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	May 09 '18 at 20:11
Run Duration	220 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	21%

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PC Performing above expectations (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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 94.7 1-Core 138 2-Core 274 94% 169 Pts	4-Core 452 8-Core 700 71% 576 Pts	64-Core 742 46% 742 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 330C) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 397.31 Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Lighting 107 Reflection 111 Parallax 105 88% 108 fps	MRender 94.2 Gravity 93.9 Splatting 96 78% 94.7 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 88%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 22.20.16.4836 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.46% Terrible	Lighting 7.8 Reflection 10.9 Parallax 7.84 6% 8.86 fps	MRender 11.4 Gravity 6.87 Splatting 15.4 10% 11.2 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.46% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk Ultra II 960GB-$226 35,454 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 73GB free Firmware: X35510RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 253 100 21040 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 115 (A5) Unknown 100 100 30104158732 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 21 (A8) Unknown 100 100 44 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 16 (AE) Unknown 100 100 73 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 39 167504379931 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 373697544732 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 15576 (EA) Unknown 100 100 22210 (F1) Unknown 253 253 16340 (F2) Unknown 253 253 12841 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	78.9% Very good	Read 490 Write 305 Mixed 190 72% 328 MB/s	4K Read 27.1 4K Write 74.2 4K Mixed 18.2 104% 39.9 MB/s	DQ Read 340 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 39.6 80% 168 MB/s
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 78.9% Great: 107%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 8GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM04B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 30457 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 162 (B1) Unknown 95 1 251 (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 65 51 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 73 (F1) Unknown 99 99 89314776234	71% Very good	Read 512 Write 61.4 Mixed 116 49% 230 MB/s	4K Read 36.6 4K Write 59.2 4K Mixed 28.6 123% 41.5 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 85.2 DQ Mixed 79.7 94% 170 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 124%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$35 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 690GB free Firmware: 0 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	101% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 165 Mixed 156 127% 169 MB/s	4K Read 1.09 4K Write 2.56 4K Mixed 0.32 128% 1.32 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 109%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$75 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 233GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 111 99 37788480 (03) Spinup time 96 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2511 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 45 45 2211926622936 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 10653 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 67 (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 65 59 606273571 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 91 91 18482 (C2) HDA temperature 35 41 68719476771 (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 15869904165403 (F1) Unknown 100 253 29695684419 (F2) Unknown 100 253 68239603413	83.3% Excellent	Read 132 Write 157 Mixed 108 99% 132 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 5.37 4K Mixed 0.42 176% 2.17 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 83.3% Great: 108%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 191GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 221 159 3950 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3363 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 7721 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 253 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 57 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 41 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 167 167 99226 (C2) HDA temperature 119 113 31 (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	58.3% Above average	Read 104 Write 99 Mixed 98.1 76% 100 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.03 4K Mixed 0.29 99% 1.01 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 58.3% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB-$169 37,519 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2668 MHz Performing above expectations (65^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	MC Read 32.5 MC Write 34.5 MC Mixed 27.7 90% 31.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.9 SC Write 37 SC Mixed 26.8 81% 28.2 GB/s	Latency 57.8 69% 57.8 ns
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 97%

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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 $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,618x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,671x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,044x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,165x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,381x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,247x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	884x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	786x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $129Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	320x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	806x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	565x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	559x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $184	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) $35	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