Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 17% Surfboard	Desktop 82% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


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 a brilliant single core score, this CPU is the business: 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 83.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	7.82% 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	177% 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 GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.8 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170426
Uptime	2.6 Days
Run Date	Aug 12 '17 at 10:43
Run Duration	134 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	3%

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 i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	83.5% Excellent	Memory 85.6 1-Core 124 2-Core 238 84% 149 Pts	4-Core 470 8-Core 470 63% 470 Pts	64-Core 466 29% 466 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 83.5% Great: 85%

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 Ver. 22.20.16.4729 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	7.82% Terrible	Lighting 8.07 Reflection 11.7 Parallax 7.75 7% 9.18 fps	MRender 12.1 Gravity 7.43 Splatting 16.4 10% 12 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 7.82% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 140GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (18^th percentile)	177% Outstanding	Read 1,805 Write 822 Mixed 1,120 275% 1,249 MB/s	4K Read 26.2 4K Write 89.5 4K Mixed 34.1 131% 49.9 MB/s	DQ Read 407 DQ Write 239 DQ Mixed 145 156% 264 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 177% Great: 236%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$32 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 884GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 155 0 (03) Spinup time 174 170 2283 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 936 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3383 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 847 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 51 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1201 (C2) HDA temperature 112 101 31 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 13 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 200 200 14 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 1 (C8) Write error rate 200 200 15	104% Outstanding	Read 198 Write 164 Mixed 162 131% 175 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.72 4K Mixed 0.35 128% 1.33 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 109%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB-$36 203,102 User benchmarks, average bench 54% 466GB free Firmware: CC46 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (63^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 115 99 93103666 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 9002 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 84 60 243815078 (09) Power-on hours count 88 88 11210 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4452 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 99 43 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 69 50 521601055 (C2) HDA temperature 31 50 25769803807 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 25 12 93103666 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 166 257279 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 -11441792853092 (F1) Unknown 100 253 4125715756 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2717454997	58.6% Above average	Read 109 Write 94.8 Mixed 88.5 73% 97.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.67 4K Write 1.74 4K Mixed 0.58 125% 0.99 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 70%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws 4 DDR4 3000 C15 4x4GB-$234 3,507 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 4 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2800 MHz Performing as expected (50^th percentile)	95% Outstanding	MC Read 34.1 MC Write 37.6 MC Mixed 31 98% 34.2 GB/s	SC Read 19.7 SC Write 38.7 SC Mixed 27.8 82% 28.7 GB/s	Latency 71.5 56% 71.5 ns
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 95% Great: 117%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,658x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,688x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,049x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,178x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,386x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,255x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	891x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $90Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	791x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	323x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	815x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	570x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	561x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $752

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $175	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16