Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (70th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 30 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 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	112% 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	97.3% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum IO wait times.
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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (16%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	28.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren, 1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 29 '17 at 13:02
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	16%

PC Performing above expectations (70^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 92.8 1-Core 126 2-Core 254 88% 157 Pts	4-Core 446 8-Core 718 71% 582 Pts	64-Core 705 44% 705 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 90%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 20.19.15.4463 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.71% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 12.2 Parallax 8.16 7% 9.46 fps	MRender 10.1 Gravity 7.2 Splatting 17 10% 11.4 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.71% Great: 6%
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% MSI(1462 3362) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 372.90 Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile)	112% Outstanding	Lighting 150 Reflection 152 Parallax 131 122% 144 fps	MRender 118 Gravity 145 Splatting 113 102% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 112% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 930GB free Firmware: 2B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	294% Outstanding	Read 2,634 Write 1,407 Mixed 1,485 405% 1,842 MB/s	4K Read 54 4K Write 127 4K Mixed 54.5 219% 78.5 MB/s	DQ Read 965 DQ Write 673 DQ Mixed 326 376% 654 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 294% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Pro 512GB-$210 68,849 User benchmarks, average bench 102% 11GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXM03B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 277 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 77 (B1) Unknown 99 1 4 (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 62 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 2723291264	97.3% Outstanding	Read 517 Write 275 Mixed 356 84% 383 MB/s	4K Read 31.8 4K Write 95.2 4K Mixed 41.3 152% 56.1 MB/s	DQ Read 365 DQ Write 227 DQ Mixed 154 153% 249 MB/s
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 97.3% Great: 124%
OCZ VERTEX3 60GB 3,574 User benchmarks, average bench 60% 1GB free Firmware: 2.11 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (32^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 89 89 3398331 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 63 63 -104573863689871 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1549 (AB) Unknown 0 0 0 (AC) Unknown 0 0 0 (AE) Unknown 0 0 40 (B1) Unknown 0 0 5 (B5) Unknown 0 0 0 (B6) Unknown 0 0 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 128 129 545469300864 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 120 120 3398331 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 120 120 3398331 (CC) Soft ECC correction 120 120 3398331 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 100 (E7) Temperature 100 100 0 (E9) Unknown 0 0 279 (EA) Unknown 0 0 160 (F1) Unknown 0 0 160 (F2) Unknown 0 0 704	55.8% Above average	Read 416 Write 78 Mixed 127 45% 207 MB/s	4K Read 29.9 4K Write 75.1 4K Mixed 15.7 105% 40.2 MB/s	DQ Read 103 DQ Write 73.9 DQ Mixed 28.6 38% 68.6 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 55.8% Great: 70%
WD Black 2TB (2013)-$48 144,544 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 1.5TB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 183 183 3841 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 75 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 253 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 75 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 35 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 44 (C2) HDA temperature 115 112 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	76.2% Very good	Read 134 Write 132 Mixed 119 96% 128 MB/s	4K Read 0.5 4K Write 2.04 4K Mixed 0.27 89% 0.94 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 76.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CMU32GX4M2A2666C16 2x16GB 1,493 User benchmarks, average bench 78% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2666 MHz Performing above expectations (81^st percentile)	88.4% Excellent	MC Read 32 MC Write 34 MC Mixed 27.8 89% 31.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.1 SC Write 36.7 SC Mixed 26.9 79% 27.6 GB/s	Latency 62.5 64% 62.5 ns
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 88.4% Great: 95%

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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	782x
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	363x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	169x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	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) $37	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