Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 13% Tree trunk	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 12% Tree trunk


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (65th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 35 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 88%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	4.37% is too low to play 3D games or use CAD packages. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	89.9% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	9.8 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160113
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	Nov 14 '17 at 16:19
Run Duration	189 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	7%

PC Performing above expectations (65^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 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	88% Excellent	Memory 93.3 1-Core 131 2-Core 246 89% 157 Pts	4-Core 445 8-Core 722 71% 583 Pts	64-Core 709 44% 709 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 88% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 550-Ti-$250 54,392 User benchmarks, average bench 9% Nvidia(10DE 089C) 2GB CLim: 900 MHz, MLim: 950 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 382.5 Relative performance (0^th percentile)	4.37% Terrible	Lighting 5.67 Reflection 6.5 Parallax 5.03 5% 5.73 fps	MRender 5.19 Gravity 3.2 Splatting 5.57 4% 4.65 fps
Poor: 7% ↑ This bench: 4.37% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Crucial BX100 500GB-$49 13,478 User benchmarks, average bench 92% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: MU02 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (40^th 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 2144 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 164 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 70 (A3) Unknown 100 100 21 (A4) Unknown 100 100 27320 (A5) Unknown 100 100 93 (A6) Unknown 100 100 0 (A7) Unknown 100 100 24 (A8) Unknown 100 100 2000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 100 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 0 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 48 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 143655 (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 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 266743 (F2) Unknown 100 100 762794 (F5) Unknown 100 100 437120	89.9% Excellent	Read 509 Write 426 Mixed 468 104% 468 MB/s	4K Read 28.9 4K Write 91.8 4K Mixed 31.9 133% 50.9 MB/s	DQ Read 27.4 DQ Write 109 DQ Mixed 19.9 29% 52 MB/s
Poor: 67% ↑ This bench: 89.9% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 3TB-$63 235,501 User benchmarks, average bench 88% 862GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (61^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 192320200 (03) Spinup time 91 91 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5915 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 40 (07) Seek error rate 53 48 188986051673 (09) Power-on hours count 55 55 39907 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 256 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 96 96 4 (BE) vendor-specific 59 49 707002409 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 68 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 93 93 15441 (C2) HDA temperature 41 51 47244640297 (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 -123205431836099 (F1) Unknown 100 253 11553676127 (F2) Unknown 100 253 8981032390	95.1% Outstanding	Read 167 Write 165 Mixed 165 125% 166 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.24 86% 0.81 MB/s
Poor: 56% ↑ This bench: 95.1% Great: 113%
Samsun HD103SI 1TB 89 User benchmarks, average bench 47% 832GB free Firmware: 1AG01118 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (87^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 0 (03) Spinup time 83 83 6050 (04) Start/Stop count 91 91 9427 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 253 253 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 23761 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 538 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 58 538902560 (C2) HDA temperature 66 57 572456994 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 394489 (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 (C8) Write error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	56.2% Above average	Read 96.4 Write 99.2 Mixed 90.9 72% 95.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.63 4K Write 1.62 4K Mixed 0.4 101% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 32% ↑ This bench: 56.2% Great: 62%
Seagate ST310005 28AS 1TB 6,973 User benchmarks, average bench 50% 337GB free Firmware: CC38 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (69^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 91 86 225774458 (03) Spinup time 95 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 95 95 5917 (05) Reallocated sector count 93 93 294 (07) Seek error rate 87 60 474666650 (09) Power-on hours count 49 49 44818 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2861 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 1 1 5145 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 63 50 623116325 (C2) HDA temperature 37 50 34359738405 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 23 14 225774458 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 8 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 8 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (F0) Head flying hours 100 253 123226906741602 (F1) Unknown 100 253 2192554415 (F2) Unknown 100 253 2848438159	58.6% Above average	Read 107 Write 97.2 Mixed 91.7 74% 98.7 MB/s	4K Read 0.54 4K Write 1.29 4K Mixed 0.47 99% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 58.6% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda Green 2TB-$95 81,608 User benchmarks, average bench 59% 136GB free Firmware: CC32 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (34^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 2296 (03) Spinup time 92 92 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8508 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 56 52 42954526704 (09) Power-on hours count 59 11 36340 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 543 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 4295032833 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 59 48 690421801 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 266 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8704 (C2) HDA temperature 41 52 55834574889 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 21 3 2296 (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 40089224762999 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1612426725 (F2) Unknown 100 253 1529208991	53.9% Above average	Read 82.2 Write 106 Mixed 81.5 67% 89.9 MB/s	4K Read 0.37 4K Write 0.92 4K Mixed 0.53 91% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 38% ↑ This bench: 53.9% Great: 75%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Ripjaws V DDR4 2666 C15 2x8GB 19,779 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (72^nd percentile)	84.1% Excellent	MC Read 30.8 MC Write 32.2 MC Mixed 26.3 85% 29.8 GB/s	SC Read 18.4 SC Write 32.1 SC Mixed 26.1 73% 25.5 GB/s	Latency 61.4 65% 61.4 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 84.1% Great: 96%

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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	6,615x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,671x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,043x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,164x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,381x
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	785x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	320x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	806x
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 $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $134	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $186	Nvidia RTX 4070 $409	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $34	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $35	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