Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 99% 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 93.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	102% 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	65.8% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system IO wait 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.

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

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	29 GB free of 32 GB @ 3.2 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colori
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180329
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Apr 24 '18 at 20:01
Run Duration	201 Seconds
Run User	ITA-User
Background CPU	12%

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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 i7-6700K-$180 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.7 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	93.2% Outstanding	Memory 96 1-Core 144 2-Core 298 98% 179 Pts	4-Core 509 8-Core 586 71% 548 Pts	64-Core 579 36% 579 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 93.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$400 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% PNY(196E 119E) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 391.35 Performing below potential (51^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	102% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 146 Parallax 124 109% 135 fps	MRender 114 Gravity 118 Splatting 105 91% 112 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 66GB free Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (86^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 157 100 413 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 3942 (A6) Unknown 100 100 114 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 152 (A9) Unknown 100 100 29 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 140 (AE) Unknown 100 100 2578 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 63 100 249108103205 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 23 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 4 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 15614 (F1) Unknown 253 253 12207 (F2) Unknown 253 253 24254	71% Very good	Read 512 Write 199 Mixed 281 72% 331 MB/s	4K Read 27.5 4K Write 113 4K Mixed 3.88 106% 48 MB/s	DQ Read 231 DQ Write 194 DQ Mixed 28.1 71% 151 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 71% Great: 78%
Samsung 840 250GB-$251 41,998 User benchmarks, average bench 70% 57GB free Firmware: DXT0AB0Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 33407 (0C) Power cycle count 93 93 6483 (B1) Unknown 62 62 451 (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 64 41 36 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 99 99 1 (EB) Unknown 99 99 4940 (F1) Unknown 99 99 208916503427	79.5% Very good	Read 515 Write 245 Mixed 300 78% 353 MB/s	4K Read 28.3 4K Write 94.5 4K Mixed 14.3 111% 45.7 MB/s	DQ Read 346 DQ Write 199 DQ Mixed 31.7 88% 192 MB/s
Poor: 51% ↑ This bench: 79.5% Great: 85%
SanDisk SSD Plus 120GB-$42 87,912 User benchmarks, average bench 58% 55GB free (System drive) Firmware: Z22000RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (74^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 115 100 115 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2477 (A6) Unknown 100 100 291 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 343 (A9) Unknown 100 100 30 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 332 (AE) Unknown 100 100 1170 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 100 240518168610 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 38 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 11 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 36079 (F1) Unknown 253 253 18341 (F2) Unknown 253 253 38012	65.8% Good	Read 517 Write 208 Mixed 293 74% 340 MB/s	4K Read 29.6 4K Write 108 4K Mixed 3.87 107% 47.2 MB/s	DQ Read 29.9 DQ Write 118 DQ Mixed 3.91 23% 50.6 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 78%
WD Green 1TB (2011)-$109 43,695 User benchmarks, average bench 51% 471GB free Firmware: 51.0AB51 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (9^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 100 (03) Spinup time 103 89 7833 (04) Start/Stop count 97 97 3107 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 92 92 6565 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2832 (C0) Power-off retract count 198 198 2136 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 149 149 153363 (C2) HDA temperature 110 99 37 (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	33.2% Below average	Read 60.6 Write 54.9 Mixed 58.9 44% 58.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.49 4K Write 1.09 4K Mixed 0.24 67% 0.61 MB/s
Poor: 28% ↑ This bench: 33.2% Great: 69%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$33 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 450GB free Firmware: CC56 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (44^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 118 99 195171392 (03) Spinup time 98 97 0 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 8752 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 73 60 8636978568 (09) Power-on hours count 61 61 34355 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 94 94 6245 (B7) Unknown 98 98 2 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 97 8590131207 (BD) vendor-specific 88 88 12 (BE) vendor-specific 61 51 82310463527 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 98 98 4588 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 96 96 8836 (C2) HDA temperature 39 49 -140737488355289 (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 -62539018763307 (F1) Unknown 100 253 187558187157 (F2) Unknown 100 253 149657870446	88.9% Excellent	Read 159 Write 151 Mixed 152 116% 154 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 1.58 4K Mixed 0.22 101% 0.97 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 88.9% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GB-$560 34,441 User benchmarks, average bench 84% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3200 MHz Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	103% Outstanding	MC Read 32.7 MC Write 42.2 MC Mixed 35.5 105% 36.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.8 SC Write 43.8 SC Mixed 30.7 88% 30.8 GB/s	Latency 53.9 74% 53.9 ns
Poor: 61% ↑ This bench: 103% Great: 105%

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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	6,620x
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