Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 83% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 73% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (75th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 25 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 92.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	84.2% 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	118% 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 8 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Sub-optimal background CPU (12%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	12.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	4096 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Oct 18 '17 at 17:03
Run Duration	203 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	12%

PC Performing above expectations (75^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 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	92.3% Outstanding	Memory 96.7 1-Core 140 2-Core 279 96% 172 Pts	4-Core 473 8-Core 780 76% 627 Pts	64-Core 782 48% 782 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 92.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Asus(1043 855B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1506 MHz, MLim: 1800 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 387.92 Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	84.2% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 116 Parallax 107 89% 111 fps	MRender 93.1 Gravity 99.1 Splatting 83.6 74% 91.9 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.2% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 619GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (73^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3159 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 514 (B1) Unknown 99 99 6 (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 74 61 26 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 45 (F1) Unknown 99 99 10456652693	120% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 408 Mixed 419 99% 444 MB/s	4K Read 42 4K Write 104 4K Mixed 58 193% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 376 DQ Write 283 DQ Mixed 135 154% 265 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 502GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (67^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3210 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 513 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 70 60 30 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 46 (F1) Unknown 99 99 12359228904	118% Outstanding	Read 504 Write 398 Mixed 417 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 43.1 4K Write 107 4K Mixed 53.5 190% 67.8 MB/s	DQ Read 377 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 131 152% 264 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 118% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 502GB free Firmware: EMT0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (38^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 4849 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1097 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (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 73 62 27 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 55 (F1) Unknown 99 99 9715805713	107% Outstanding	Read 510 Write 407 Mixed 425 100% 447 MB/s	4K Read 40.2 4K Write 99.9 4K Mixed 33.1 156% 57.7 MB/s	DQ Read 379 DQ Write 284 DQ Mixed 138 156% 267 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 133%
Crucial_ CT2050MX30 2TB 55 User benchmarks, average bench 72% 352GB free Firmware: M0C Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^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 50 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 202 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 1 (AE) Unknown 100 100 21 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 73 59 176094838811 (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 4101850252 (F7) Unknown 100 100 128479287 (F8) Unknown 100 100 58040575 (B4) Unknown 0 0 9087 (D2) Unknown 100 100 0	85.7% Excellent	Read 481 Write 338 Mixed 335 85% 385 MB/s	4K Read 25.3 4K Write 84.2 4K Mixed 25.4 116% 45 MB/s	DQ Read 278 DQ Write 222 DQ Mixed 24.4 80% 175 MB/s
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 85.7% Great: 93%
Seagate Barracuda Pro 10TB (2016)-$138 396 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 2.5TB free Firmware: DN01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Relative performance n/a - RAM cached drive detected (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 79 64 80154234 (03) Spinup time 89 89 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 60 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 78 60 68989152 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 -123360050675254 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 60 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 98 98 2 (BE) vendor-specific 71 66 504692765 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 2446 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 1191 (C2) HDA temperature 29 40 85899345949 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 15 1 80154234 (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 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 107898168410395 (F1) Unknown 100 253 15187049120 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1284115284
Poor: 47% Great: 111%
Seagate Desktop HDD 5TB (2015)-$634 281 User benchmarks, average bench 90% 2TB free Firmware: CC48 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (66^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 56702522 (03) Spinup time 87 87 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 513 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 72 60 30204654869 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 3205 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 512 (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 41 769320615966 (BF) G-sense error rate 99 99 2684 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 0 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 14420 (C2) HDA temperature 30 59 60129542174 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 65 43 56702522 (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 3985729653051 (F1) Unknown 100 253 26643550958 (F2) Unknown 100 253 386547500595	98.8% Outstanding	Read 174 Write 170 Mixed 25.4 89% 123 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.52 4K Mixed 0.46 121% 1.18 MB/s
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 98.8% Great: 116%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4B8G2J3000K15K 2x8GB 402 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	102% Outstanding	MC Read 37.5 MC Write 38.6 MC Mixed 31.7 103% 35.9 GB/s	SC Read 22.6 SC Write 42.4 SC Mixed 31.9 92% 32.3 GB/s	Latency 51.3 78% 51.3 ns
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

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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	6,620x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,671x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,044x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,166x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,382x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,247x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	884x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	786x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	320x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	807x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	565x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	559x

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Value: 95% - Outstanding

Total price: $750

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $182	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	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) $30	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