Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 98% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 96% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 84% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (73rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 27 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 94.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	100% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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.

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/AURA (all builds)
Memory	28.9 GB free of 32 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 01:23
Run Duration	105 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (73^rd 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 4.2 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.5% Outstanding	Memory 96.1 1-Core 134 2-Core 267 93% 166 Pts	4-Core 500 8-Core 740 77% 620 Pts	64-Core 736 46% 736 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 94.5% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
AMD RX Vega-64-$400 91,676 User benchmarks, average bench 87% AMD(1002 6B76) CLim: 1612 MHz, MLim: 980 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 17.11.1 Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Lighting 125 Reflection 91.7 Parallax 195 102% 137 fps	MRender 89.3 Gravity 129 Splatting 129 97% 116 fps
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 94%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 169GB free Firmware: MAT01B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (19^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2848 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 757 (B1) Unknown 99 99 4 (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 65 54 35 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 5 (F1) Unknown 99 99 3526929977	90.9% Outstanding	Read 487 Write 266 Mixed 275 75% 343 MB/s	4K Read 44.9 4K Write 68.1 4K Mixed 31.9 145% 48.3 MB/s	DQ Read 351 DQ Write 183 DQ Mixed 68.5 104% 201 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 90.9% Great: 123%
WD Black 3TB (2013)-$151 16,992 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2TB free (System drive) Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (76^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 159 154 11025 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 762 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 97 97 2861 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 756 (10) Unknown 7 193 134812335661 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 746 (C2) HDA temperature 108 106 44 (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	91% Outstanding	Read 168 Write 150 Mixed 145 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 0.56 4K Write 2.55 4K Mixed 0.24 97% 1.12 MB/s
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 91% Great: 100%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair CM4X8GC3000C15K4 4x8GB 83 User benchmarks, average bench 93% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3000 MHz Performing above expectations (69^th percentile)	101% Outstanding	MC Read 35.9 MC Write 38.5 MC Mixed 32.2 102% 35.5 GB/s	SC Read 22.5 SC Write 41.2 SC Mixed 32.3 91% 32 GB/s	Latency 53.7 74% 53.7 ns
Poor: 69% ↑ This bench: 101% Great: 111%

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	790x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	286x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	365x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	172x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	144x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	75x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 99% - Outstanding

Total price: $452

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	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 $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) $32	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16