Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 75% Battleship	Desktop 92% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 65% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (46th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 54 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 89.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	81.1% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	76% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (11%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit kleuren
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160705
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Aug 24 '17 at 01:05
Run Duration	142 Seconds
Run User	NLD-User
Background CPU	11%

PC Performing as expected (46^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 4.4 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	89.3% Excellent	Memory 91.6 1-Core 132 2-Core 268 91% 164 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 730 74% 599 Pts	64-Core 759 47% 759 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 89.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% MSI(1462 3232) CLim: 1531 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 385.28 Performing below potential (68^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	81.1% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 109 Parallax 98.6 85% 104 fps	MRender 90.2 Gravity 94.3 Splatting 84.1 73% 89.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.1% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 47GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (5^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4028 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 564 (B1) Unknown 92 92 38 (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 60 44 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 24 (F1) Unknown 99 99 19120884732	76% Very good	Read 486 Write 263 Mixed 272 75% 340 MB/s	4K Read 39.9 4K Write 71.4 4K Mixed 18.9 122% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 41 DQ Write 187 DQ Mixed 18.4 42% 82.2 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 123%
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016)-$39 1,120,098 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 308GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (23^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 75 63 40876666 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1735 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 67 60 6200049 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 2055 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 275 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (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 63 48 622788645 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1741 (C2) HDA temperature 37 16 68719476773 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 4 40876666 (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 23609435227413 (F1) Unknown 100 253 6846847298 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1131339806	80.3% Excellent	Read 147 Write 133 Mixed 136 104% 139 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.78 4K Mixed 0.28 93% 0.92 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 113%
Toshiba DT01ACA050 500GB-$25 163,843 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 106GB free Firmware: MS1OA750 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (49^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (02) Throughput performance 141 141 74 (03) Spinup time 125 125 12896895160 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 2363 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 113 113 35 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 5384 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 782 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 2383 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2383 (C2) HDA temperature 171 171 219044249635 (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 0	76.3% Very good	Read 134 Write 132 Mixed 128 99% 131 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.77 4K Mixed 0.17 70% 0.79 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 76.3% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
HyperX Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GB-$125 59,072 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (37^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72.7% Very good	MC Read 26.4 MC Write 27.3 MC Mixed 22.8 73% 25.5 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 27 SC Mixed 22.9 64% 22.3 GB/s	Latency 64.8 62% 64.8 ns
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 72.7% Great: 85%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,629x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,674x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,045x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,168x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,383x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,250x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	885x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	787x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	321x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	808x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	566x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	560x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

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 $178	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