Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 95% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 82% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 85.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	106% 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	84.3% 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 8.1 is a recent version of Windows, it's worth upgrading to Windows 10 which has had several improvements made to the user interface including a better homescreen.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	26.5 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors,
OS	Windows 8.1
BIOS Date	20161227
Uptime	0.6 Days
Run Date	Apr 12 '17 at 11:21
Run Duration	191 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^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 above expectations (84^th percentile)	85.9% Excellent	Memory 94.9 1-Core 126 2-Core 235 87% 152 Pts	4-Core 414 8-Core 688 67% 551 Pts	64-Core 674 42% 674 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 85.9% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 8592) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 381.65 Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 149 Parallax 129 113% 139 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 132 Splatting 109 96% 119 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial MX300 SATA M.2 1TB-$65 6,111 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 823GB free (System drive) Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 385 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 36 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 15 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 65 40 257699282979 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 4148502116 (F7) Unknown 100 100 138222207 (F8) Unknown 100 100 28123930 (B4) Unknown 0 0 8756 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	84.3% Excellent	Read 484 Write 320 Mixed 340 84% 381 MB/s	4K Read 27.6 4K Write 54.9 4K Mixed 28.2 107% 36.9 MB/s	DQ Read 348 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 56 103% 209 MB/s
Poor: 68% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 104%
Crucial M500 960GB-$59 4,389 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 795GB free Firmware: MU05 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 31 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 11419 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 197 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 20 (AE) Unknown 100 100 134 (B4) Unknown 0 0 16523 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 51 210453397527 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 14871181613 (F7) Unknown 100 100 473807253 (F8) Unknown 100 100 864325469	99.6% Outstanding	Read 489 Write 421 Mixed 446 101% 452 MB/s	4K Read 26.3 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 30.9 136% 54.6 MB/s	DQ Read 292 DQ Write 310 DQ Mixed 60.2 112% 221 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 99.6% Great: 101%
Crucial MX300 525GB-$150 105,037 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 475GB free Firmware: M0CR040 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (52^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1051 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 111 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 4 (AE) Unknown 100 100 83 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 77 58 180389675031 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 100 100 0 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 3032336872 (F7) Unknown 100 100 94795478 (F8) Unknown 100 100 31642459 (B4) Unknown 0 0 1920 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	87% Excellent	Read 483 Write 341 Mixed 339 86% 388 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 26.2 115% 43 MB/s	DQ Read 332 DQ Write 216 DQ Mixed 46.3 96% 198 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 87% Great: 99%
Nvme SAMSUNG MZVLV512 512GB 2,994 User benchmarks, average bench 137% 316GB free Firmware: BXV7000Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	192% Outstanding	Read 1,614 Write 558 Mixed 771 214% 981 MB/s	4K Read 40.8 4K Write 157 4K Mixed 40.5 197% 79.4 MB/s	DQ Read 989 DQ Write 569 DQ Mixed 150 280% 570 MB/s
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 192% Great: 173%
Seagate Desktop HDD 6TB (2015)-$107 691 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (60^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 154297928 (03) Spinup time 86 86 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 84 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 65 60 3454974 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 430 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 35 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 12885098500 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 73 63 521863195 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 330 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 394 (C2) HDA temperature 27 40 85899345947 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 46 154297928 (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 -124257698840230 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2350803424 (F2) Unknown 100 253 11014483478	97.6% Outstanding	Read 182 Write 159 Mixed 163 126% 168 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 2.46 4K Mixed 0.35 111% 1.15 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 97.6% Great: 117%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3466 C16 2x16GB 118 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 2133 MHz clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	92.8% Outstanding	MC Read 33.6 MC Write 36 MC Mixed 28.3 93% 32.6 GB/s	SC Read 20.6 SC Write 38.8 SC Mixed 28.8 84% 29.4 GB/s	Latency 57.3 70% 57.3 ns
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 92.8% Great: 121%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

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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 $94Bench 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 $45Bench 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: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	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 $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 $45	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