Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 100% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 98% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 80% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 94.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	106% 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	111% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	9.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit farver
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Jan 22 '18 at 09:27
Run Duration	321 Seconds
Run User	DEU-User
Background CPU	16%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

Actual performance vs. expectations. The graphs show user score (x) vs user score frequency (y).

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$190 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	94.9% Outstanding	Memory 95 1-Core 152 2-Core 299 100% 182 Pts	4-Core 538 8-Core 592 74% 565 Pts	64-Core 588 36% 588 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 94.9% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Asus(1043 85AA) CLim: 1974 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 390.65 Performing above expectations (85^th percentile)	106% Outstanding	Lighting 139 Reflection 153 Parallax 143 113% 145 fps	MRender 116 Gravity 135 Splatting 111 98% 121 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 850 Evo 1TB-$130 154,399 User benchmarks, average bench 110% 81GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (31^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 5716 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 45 (B1) Unknown 99 99 19 (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 60 42 40 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 2 (F1) Unknown 99 99 29386991309	104% Outstanding	Read 519 Write 414 Mixed 427 101% 453 MB/s	4K Read 40.3 4K Write 78.2 4K Mixed 33.1 145% 50.5 MB/s	DQ Read 366 DQ Write 263 DQ Mixed 133 149% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 104% Great: 133%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$109 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (43^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 2270 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 423 (B1) Unknown 98 98 25 (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 61 50 39 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 51 (F1) Unknown 99 99 15757929211	111% Outstanding	Read 512 Write 401 Mixed 409 98% 441 MB/s	4K Read 43.6 4K Write 82.6 4K Mixed 46 169% 57.4 MB/s	DQ Read 367 DQ Write 266 DQ Mixed 129 147% 254 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 111% Great: 134%
Seagate ST9320423AS 320GB-$40 13,598 User benchmarks, average bench 36% 593GB free Firmware: 0003SDM1 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing below expectations (36^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 113 99 53951599 (03) Spinup time 99 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 5074 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 71 60 73229037533 (09) Power-on hours count 91 91 8276 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3329 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 97 97 3 (BC) Unknown 100 98 225 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 66 45 571801634 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 84 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 124 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 60 60 81748 (C2) HDA temperature 34 55 64424509474 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 56 48 53951599 (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 51973399255285 (F1) Unknown 100 253 400905307 (F2) Unknown 100 253 379087501 (FE) Unknown 100 100 0	33.3% Below average	Read 58.1 Write 57.9 Mixed 56.5 43% 57.5 MB/s	4K Read 0.41 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.28 71% 0.64 MB/s
Poor: 9% ↑ This bench: 33.3% Great: 51%
Toshiba MK3252GSX 320GB-$70 3,538 User benchmarks, average bench 26% 593GB free Firmware: LV011C Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (95^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 1699 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4850 (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 87 87 5473 (0A) Spinup retry count 196 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3141 (B8) Unknown 86 86 14 (BB) vendor-specific 86 86 14 (BC) Unknown 100 98 3 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 62 27 639041574 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 369 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 6488163 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 17829 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 313533399078 (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 200 200 2 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 53 (DE) Loaded hours 92 92 3475 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 326 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	33.4% Below average	Read 57.4 Write 59 Mixed 55.9 43% 57.4 MB/s	4K Read 0.47 4K Write 1.25 4K Mixed 0.28 74% 0.67 MB/s
Poor: 13% ↑ This bench: 33.4% Great: 34%
Toshiba MK7559GSXP 750GB-$118 5,761 User benchmarks, average bench 40% 279GB free Firmware: GN003J Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (65^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 2061 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 4306 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 1416 (07) Seek error rate 100 100 0 (08) Seek timer performance 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 77 77 9350 (0A) Spinup retry count 186 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3079 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 3988 (C0) Power-off retract count 99 99 582 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 19152 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 219044184100 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 108 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 12098 (DC) Disk shift 100 100 8222 (DE) Loaded hours 83 83 7047 (DF) Load/unload retry count 100 100 0 (E0) Load friction 100 100 0 (E2) Load-in time 100 100 315 (F0) Head flying hours 100 100 0	44.7% Average	Read 80.6 Write 75.1 Mixed 70.2 57% 75.3 MB/s	4K Read 0.36 4K Write 1.36 4K Mixed 0.16 57% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 44.7% Great: 56%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 1x16GB 1,330 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 1 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2933 MHz Performing way above expectations (88^th percentile)	54.2% Above average	MC Read 19.3 MC Write 18.9 MC Mixed 15.8 51% 18 GB/s	SC Read 15.8 SC Write 19.3 SC Mixed 17.7 50% 17.6 GB/s	Latency 57 70% 57 ns
Poor: 34% ↑ This bench: 54.2% Great: 58%

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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	777x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	283x
Core i7-7700KIntel $242Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	362x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	167x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	142x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	80x
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 $40Bench 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: 97% - Outstanding

Total price: $461

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $279	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 $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