Asus Z170I PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 66% Battle cruiser	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 54% Yacht


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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 87.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	70.8% is a good 3D score. This GPU can handle the majority of recent games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	81.7% 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	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.

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

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z170I PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Feb 19 '17 at 23:30
Run Duration	138 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	40%

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 i7-7700K-$230 712,312 User benchmarks, average bench 84% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 5 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 159 2-Core 314 103% 189 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 535 65% 500 Pts	64-Core 565 35% 565 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-$500 167,107 User benchmarks, average bench 59% Asus(1043 8518) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1619 MHz, MLim: 1948 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 378.66 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	70.8% Very good	Lighting 91.8 Reflection 88.4 Parallax 79.2 75% 86.5 fps	MRender 84.8 Gravity 79.4 Splatting 70.3 63% 78.2 fps
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 70.8% Great: 66%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 840 Evo 250GB-$95 217,115 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 109GB free (System drive) Firmware: EXT0DB6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (20^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4844 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 4871 (B1) Unknown 94 94 62 (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 64 31 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4099 (F1) Unknown 99 99 25220829642	81.7% Excellent	Read 507 Write 346 Mixed 302 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 37.9 4K Write 69.6 4K Mixed 20.5 121% 42.7 MB/s	DQ Read 38.5 DQ Write 191 DQ Mixed 42.1 54% 90.4 MB/s
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 118%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 698GB free Firmware: CC49 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (54^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 119 99 220254768 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 98 98 2407 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 26494614 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8239 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2409 (B7) Unknown 1 1 602 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 72 48 30553079836 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 631 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 51 51 99451 (C2) HDA temperature 28 52 -140737488355300 (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 -77030238447405 (F1) Unknown 100 253 18111300418 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26963311469	93.5% Outstanding	Read 165 Write 161 Mixed 119 111% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.28 4K Write 0.83 4K Mixed 0.21 50% 0.44 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 93.5% Great: 112%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$45 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 861GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 58171032 (03) Spinup time 95 95 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1306 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 8623602064 (09) Power-on hours count 87 87 12027 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 95 95 5236 (B7) Unknown 1 1 1235 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 7 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 71 48 488374301 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 632 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8229 (C2) HDA temperature 29 52 77309411357 (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 120044335933572 (F1) Unknown 100 253 20715326558 (F2) Unknown 100 253 29866468857	86.5% Excellent	Read 125 Write 175 Mixed 128 107% 143 MB/s	4K Read 0.79 4K Write 5.25 4K Mixed 0.81 220% 2.28 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 86.5% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 2 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	80.3% Excellent	MC Read 28.2 MC Write 30.7 MC Mixed 26.5 81% 28.5 GB/s	SC Read 18.1 SC Write 29.4 SC Mixed 23.7 68% 23.7 GB/s	Latency 61.5 65% 61.5 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 85%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170I PRO GAMING - $165

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	580x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	432x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	144x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	218x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	168x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	152x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	72x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	68x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	43x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	100x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	81x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	49x

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Value: 94% - Outstanding

Total price: $625

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $290	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16