Asus Z170-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 84% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 86.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.51% 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	143% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-PRO (all builds)
Memory	10.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	1 Days
Run Date	Jan 07 '17 at 18:08
Run Duration	346 Seconds
Run User	SVK-User
Background CPU	10%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.15 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	86.1% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 129 2-Core 240 88% 154 Pts	4-Core 427 8-Core 729 70% 578 Pts	64-Core 732 45% 732 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.1% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4474 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.51% Terrible	Lighting 8 Reflection 11.8 Parallax 7.88 6% 9.21 fps	MRender 9.62 Gravity 6.97 Splatting 16.1 9% 10.9 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.51% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Seagate Expansion Desk 5TB 1,997 User benchmarks, average bench 14% 3.5TB free Firmware: 0909 Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	14.5% Very poor	Read 90.6 Write 142 Mixed 90.1 24% 108 MB/s	4K Read 1.44 4K Write 8.51 4K Mixed 0.34 7% 3.43 MB/s	DQ Read 3.27 DQ Write 10 DQ Mixed 0.18 2% 4.5 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 14.5% Great: 18%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 368GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2354 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 691 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 61 56 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4 (F1) Unknown 99 99 885285453	83.1% Excellent	Read 495 Write 401 Mixed 413 97% 436 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 63.7 4K Mixed 22.2 123% 42 MB/s	DQ Read 34.4 DQ Write 87 DQ Mixed 22.7 28% 48 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 83.1% Great: 134%
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$250 40,327 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 97GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^th percentile)	143% Outstanding	Read 1,265 Write 659 Mixed 796 200% 907 MB/s	4K Read 38.2 4K Write 137 4K Mixed 23.2 160% 66.2 MB/s	DQ Read 41.9 DQ Write 224 DQ Mixed 24.1 50% 96.5 MB/s
Poor: 131% ↑ This bench: 143% Great: 243%
Seagate BUP Slim RD 2TB 4,801 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0143 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	70.4% Very good	Read 117 Write 129 Mixed 114 90% 120 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.65 4K Mixed 0.35 93% 0.85 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 70.4% Great: 66%
WD Green 2TB (2011)-$70 212,471 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 1TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (42^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 164 159 8800 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4431 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 13882 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3790 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 66 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 187 187 39982 (C2) HDA temperature 115 100 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	49.2% Average	Read 92.8 Write 78.5 Mixed 79.9 63% 83.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.7 4K Write 1.59 4K Mixed 0.24 85% 0.84 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 49.2% Great: 67%
USB DISK 2.0 8GB 5,616 User benchmarks, average bench 5% 7GB free, PID 4200 Operating at USB 2.0 Speed Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	7.49% Terrible	Read 29.1 Write 6.46 Mixed 9.54 15% 15 MB/s	4K Read 7.83 4K Write 0.007 4K Mixed 0.01 30% 2.62 MB/s
Poor: 2% ↑ This bench: 7.49% Great: 9%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$43 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	92.1% Outstanding	MC Read 34.5 MC Write 34.4 MC Mixed 28.9 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 19.2 SC Write 39.4 SC Mixed 28.8 83% 29.1 GB/s	Latency 62.4 64% 62.4 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 92.1% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170-PRO - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	513x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	78x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	169x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	105x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	71x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GBCorsair $560Bench 84%, 34,441 samples	34x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $674

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