Asrock Z170 Professional Gaming i7

Performance Results


Gaming 102% UFO	Desktop 94% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 88% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (55th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 45 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 89.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	77% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). 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, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asrock Z170 Professional Gaming i7 (all builds)
Memory	29.2 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161118
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 07 '17 at 23:11
Run Duration	117 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing as expected (55^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% CPUSocket, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4.2 GHz, turbo 4.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile)	89.8% Excellent	Memory 92 1-Core 148 2-Core 273 95% 171 Pts	4-Core 471 8-Core 724 74% 598 Pts	64-Core 774 48% 774 Pts
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 89.8% Great: 92%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2565 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 385.41 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 157 Parallax 147 125% 152 fps	MRender 115 Gravity 145 Splatting 114 101% 125 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
HyperX Savage 240GB-$120 39,518 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 16GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM00.Y 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 (02) Throughput performance 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 100 100 0 (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 100 100 1735 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 577 (A8) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 366 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1245242 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 57 (C2) HDA temperature 70 61 167504707614 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (DA) Unknown 100 100 0 (E7) Temperature 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5132 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4018 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7428 (F4) Unknown 100 100 19 (F5) Unknown 100 100 58 (F6) Unknown 100 100 1347520	77% Very good	Read 513 Write 133 Mixed 506 85% 384 MB/s	4K Read 30.3 4K Write 109 4K Mixed 13.4 121% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 327 DQ Write 311 DQ Mixed 13.8 94% 217 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 77% Great: 111%
Seagate FireCuda SSHD 1TB (2016)-$70 66,332 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 469GB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (47^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 104 99 6540936 (03) Spinup time 97 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 552 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 69 60 10197703 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1645 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 573 (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 70 57 505217054 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2774 (C2) HDA temperature 30 43 68719476766 (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 11746735556052 (F1) Unknown 100 253 24658191215 (F2) Unknown 100 253 12184901187	81.6% Excellent	Read 120 Write 164 Mixed 130 104% 138 MB/s	4K Read 0.66 4K Write 5.28 4K Mixed 0.54 186% 2.16 MB/s
Poor: 39% ↑ This bench: 81.6% Great: 111%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3400 C16 4x8GB 1,993 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (18^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	72% Very good	MC Read 25.8 MC Write 27.4 MC Mixed 21 71% 24.7 GB/s	SC Read 17.9 SC Write 29.5 SC Mixed 25.8 70% 24.4 GB/s	Latency 64.1 62% 64.1 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 72% Great: 121%

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Gaming 86%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 73%

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Motherboard: Asrock Z170 Professional Gaming i7

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	127x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	20x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	9x

GPU
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	26x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	26x
RTX 3080Nvidia $625Bench 187%, 424,051 samples	12x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	17x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	7x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GBSamsung $250Bench 199%, 40,327 samples	5x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	11x
Ripjaws V DDR4 2400 C15 2x8GBG.SKILL $31Bench 71%, 98,777 samples	9x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	8x

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Total price: $719

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