Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 112% UFO	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 93% Nuclear submarine


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (58th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 42 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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	132% 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	257% 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	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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	22.1 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161027
Uptime	0.7 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '17 at 19:03
Run Duration	238 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing as expected (58^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 128 2-Core 231 86% 150 Pts	4-Core 418 8-Core 601 64% 510 Pts	64-Core 598 37% 598 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-Ti-$485 840,268 User benchmarks, average bench 124% Asus(1043 85EA) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2752 MHz, Ram: 11GB, Driver: 388.0 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	132% Outstanding	Lighting 183 Reflection 201 Parallax 198 149% 194 fps	MRender 131 Gravity 184 Splatting 132 121% 149 fps
Poor: 109% ↑ This bench: 132% Great: 133%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 393GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile)	257% Outstanding	Read 2,275 Write 1,371 Mixed 1,375 369% 1,674 MB/s	4K Read 46 4K Write 140 4K Mixed 50.5 208% 78.8 MB/s	DQ Read 471 DQ Write 398 DQ Mixed 195 211% 355 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 257% Great: 283%
Samsung 840 Pro 512GB-$129 14,996 User benchmarks, average bench 96% 132GB free Firmware: DXM06B0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (80^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 11267 (0C) Power cycle count 88 88 11633 (B1) Unknown 96 96 144 (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 72 55 28 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 32 (F1) Unknown 99 99 60570230970	109% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 497 Mixed 509 114% 508 MB/s	4K Read 34.2 4K Write 97.8 4K Mixed 31.2 144% 54.4 MB/s	DQ Read 359 DQ Write 313 DQ Mixed 97.1 138% 256 MB/s
Poor: 66% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 118%
Corsair CMFSSD-128D1 128GB 87 User benchmarks, average bench 23% 109GB free Firmware: 1.0 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way below expectations (10^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 7 0 0 (09) Power-on hours count 25 64 0 (0C) Power cycle count 34 18 0 (B8) Unknown 24 0 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 0 0 0 (C4) Reallocation count 0 0 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 0 0 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 28 66 198774 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 195 131 258091 (C8) Write error rate 4 97 3456 (C9) Soft read error rate 229 83 3818 (CA) Data Address Mark errors 226 182 21 (CB) Run out cancel 120 66 21 (CC) Soft ECC correction 0 0 0 (CD) Thermal asperity rate(TAR) 160 134 1 (CE) Flying height 1 0 0 (CF) Spin high current 115 81 0 (D0) Spin buzz 227 11 0 (D1) Offline seek performance 97 0 0 (D2) Unknown 238 0 0 (D3) Unknown 0 0 0	7.38% Terrible	Read 84.9 Write 25.1 Mixed 53.9 12% 54.6 MB/s	4K Read 4 4K Write 2.25 4K Mixed 1.07 9% 2.44 MB/s
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 7.38% Great: 39%
WD Red 4TB (2013)-$110 55,507 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 3TB free Firmware: 82.00A82 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 169 6400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 818 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 501 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 443 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 4 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1683 (C2) HDA temperature 120 116 30 (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	86.8% Excellent	Read 143 Write 160 Mixed 146 112% 149 MB/s	4K Read 0.97 4K Write 2.83 4K Mixed 0.28 124% 1.36 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 86.8% Great: 100%
WD Green 3TB (2011)-$60 112,929 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 154GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (21^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 154 149 9275 (04) Start/Stop count 76 76 24350 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 72 72 21073 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 87 87 13430 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 65 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 161 161 118013 (C2) HDA temperature 120 107 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (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	50.3% Above average	Read 98.1 Write 77.1 Mixed 76.2 63% 83.8 MB/s	4K Read 0.48 4K Write 1.53 4K Mixed 0.24 75% 0.75 MB/s
Poor: 40% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 83%
WD My Passport 25E2 4TB 31,793 User benchmarks, average bench 38% 520GB free, PID 25e2 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed Performing below expectations (29^th percentile)	28.4% Poor	Read 76.3 Write 68 Mixed 60.6 86% 68.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.89 4K Write 0.76 4K Mixed 0.09 32% 0.58 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 28.4% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 8,488 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (71^st percentile)	76% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 24.3 76% 26.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.5 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 23.4 67% 23.3 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 76% Great: 89%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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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 $45Bench 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: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $466

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 $179	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