Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 114% UFO	Desktop 102% UFO	Workstation 100% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (69th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 31 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 97%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	115% 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	194% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	12.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170623
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Aug 11 '17 at 22:37
Run Duration	369 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	10%

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PC Performing above expectations (69^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 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	97% Outstanding	Memory 97.1 1-Core 152 2-Core 292 100% 180 Pts	4-Core 521 8-Core 839 83% 680 Pts	64-Core 842 52% 842 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 97% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Zotac(19DA 1426) CLim: 2113 MHz, MLim: 2600 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 384.94 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	115% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 160 Parallax 138 125% 150 fps	MRender 122 Gravity 147 Splatting 117 104% 129 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 115% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial M550 256GB-$152 8,333 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 172GB free Firmware: MU01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (25^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 22077 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 152 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 96 96 139 (AE) Unknown 100 100 96 (B4) Unknown 0 0 2159 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 67 48 223339610145 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 16 (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 96 96 4 (CE) Flying height 100 100 0 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0 (F6) Unknown 100 100 19843903024 (F7) Unknown 100 100 633057278 (F8) Unknown 100 100 1711934776	80.4% Excellent	Read 505 Write 466 Mixed 481 108% 484 MB/s	4K Read 23.2 4K Write 87.5 4K Mixed 15.1 101% 41.9 MB/s	DQ Read 23.3 DQ Write 89.9 DQ Mixed 16.1 24% 43.1 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.4% Great: 113%
Toshiba OCZ RD400 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB-$4 3,426 User benchmarks, average bench 174% 149GB free (System drive) Firmware: 57CZ4102 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile)	194% Outstanding	Read 1,757 Write 667 Mixed 1,281 272% 1,235 MB/s	4K Read 30.2 4K Write 171 4K Mixed 18.4 160% 73.2 MB/s	DQ Read 908 DQ Write 807 DQ Mixed 16.9 243% 577 MB/s
Poor: 122% ↑ This bench: 194% Great: 219%
Seagate Expansion 4TB 22,017 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free Firmware: 0706 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 96 96 315396570 (03) Spinup time 96 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 6207 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 4317226988 (09) Power-on hours count 85 85 26027501826906 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 49 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 129 (BC) Unknown 100 36 4385230293008 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 42 116671119401 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 9 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 83 83 34831 (C2) HDA temperature 41 58 21474836521 (C5) Current pending sector count 71 71 2424 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 71 71 2424 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 42666205119067 (F1) Unknown 100 253 7150336196 (F2) Unknown 100 253 26040906936	68.6% Good	Read 117 Write 120 Mixed 89.8 82% 109 MB/s	4K Read 1.11 4K Write 6.14 4K Mixed 0.47 212% 2.57 MB/s
Poor: 17% ↑ This bench: 68.6% Great: 66%
Seagate FireCuda 2.5" 2TB-$79 71,106 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 1.5TB free Firmware: SDM1 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (64^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 69 83852347 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 17 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 712163 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 28247999905814 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3 (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 74 65 521666586 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 1 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 22 (C2) HDA temperature 26 40 94489280538 (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 -6189047873517 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1282201943 (F2) Unknown 100 253 22445182 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	49.6% Average	Read 92.8 Write 80 Mixed 73.1 61% 82 MB/s	4K Read 1.01 4K Write 0.81 4K Mixed 0.66 130% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 23% ↑ This bench: 49.6% Great: 68%
Hitachi HDS721075KLA330 750GB-$100 3,905 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 695GB free Firmware: GK8OA70M Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 109 109 42985521698 (04) Start/Stop count 94 94 26444 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 49918 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1396 (C0) Power-off retract count 77 77 28326 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 28326 (C2) HDA temperature 136 136 300648562732 (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 200 200 5053	47% Average	Read 79.5 Write 84 Mixed 82.1 62% 81.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.84 4K Write 1.66 4K Mixed 0.5 121% 1 MB/s
Poor: 25% ↑ This bench: 47% Great: 47%
WD Black 1TB (2010)-$49 257,835 User benchmarks, average bench 57% 597GB free Firmware: 05.00K05 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 229 223 8541 (04) Start/Stop count 85 85 15045 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 31 31 50965 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1581 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 250 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 195 195 15041 (C2) HDA temperature 106 90 44 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 7 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 6 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 0	57.3% Above average	Read 109 Write 91 Mixed 97.5 75% 99 MB/s	4K Read 0.57 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.3 92% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 57.3% Great: 76%
Samsung HD102UJ 1TB 534 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 344GB free Firmware: 1AA01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (15^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 75 75 8300 (04) Start/Stop count 83 83 17589 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 34941 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1585 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 70 48 622723102 (C2) HDA temperature 70 45 9329639454 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 1320239 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	40% Below average	Read 66 Write 73.2 Mixed 79.4 55% 72.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 1.57 4K Mixed 0.36 84% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 40% Great: 65%
WD Elements 10B8 2TB 59 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 330GB free Firmware: 1012 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (35^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 205 203 4741 (04) Start/Stop count 79 79 21715 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 71 71 21281 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 151 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 70 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 184 184 50911 (C2) HDA temperature 113 99 39 (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	35.4% Below average	Read 67.4 Write 55.7 Mixed 56.6 45% 59.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.33 4K Write 1.41 4K Mixed 0.17 58% 0.63 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 35.4% Great: 53%
WD Ext HDD 1021 1.5TB 22 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 320GB free Firmware: 2002 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 181 177 5925 (04) Start/Stop count 78 78 22320 (05) Reallocated sector count 199 199 1 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 65 65 25799 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 755 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 28 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 179 179 63729 (C2) HDA temperature 101 92 49 (C4) Reallocation count 199 199 1 (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	23.2% Poor	Read 41.6 Write 38.8 Mixed 39.3 30% 39.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.46 4K Mixed 0.13 64% 0.71 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 23.2% Great: 24%
Fujitsu MHW2120BH 120GB-$32 1,252 User benchmarks, average bench 18% 112GB free Firmware: 8916 Max speed: SATA 1.0 150 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 11492 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 32374784 (03) Spinup time 100 100 1 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 4889 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 8589934592000 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 544 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 6075 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 4823 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 253 253 0 (B9) Unknown 253 253 0 (BA) Unknown 253 253 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 45 706478113 (BF) G-sense error rate 253 99 16580609 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 4915275 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 95 95 105354 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 22 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 456589312 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 26979 (CB) Run out cancel 100 100 2628610883120 (F0) Head flying hours 200 200 0	22.7% Poor	Read 39.5 Write 39.5 Mixed 37.4 29% 38.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 0.95 4K Mixed 0.26 66% 0.56 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 22.7% Great: 33%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL F4 DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB 17,029 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3020 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	96.7% Outstanding	MC Read 37.2 MC Write 36.9 MC Mixed 27.3 97% 33.8 GB/s	SC Read 22.1 SC Write 37.5 SC Mixed 32 87% 30.5 GB/s	Latency 50.1 80% 50.1 ns
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 96.7% Great: 108%

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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 $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