Asus H170M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 72% Battleship	Desktop 93% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 60% Gunboat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 84.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	80.3% is a very good 3D score, it's the business. This GPU can handle recent 3D games at high resolutions and ultra detail levels.
Boot Drive	238% 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.

Sub-optimal background CPU (17%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

5 years ago, 5 years ago, 5 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus H170M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	12.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20150721
Uptime	0.3 Days
Run Date	May 22 '18 at 15:30
Run Duration	133 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	17%

PC Performing above expectations (67^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)	84.3% Excellent	Memory 91.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 240 86% 153 Pts	4-Core 417 8-Core 594 63% 506 Pts	64-Core 596 37% 596 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 84.3% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% Gigabyte(1458 36CB) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1455 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 6GB, Driver: 397.64 Performing below potential (61^st percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.3% Excellent	Lighting 103 Reflection 106 Parallax 97.2 84% 102 fps	MRender 90.4 Gravity 93.5 Splatting 84.7 73% 89.5 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 970 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$100 154,949 User benchmarks, average bench 235% 57GB free (System drive) Firmware: 1B2QEXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (48^th percentile)	238% Outstanding	Read 2,636 Write 1,223 Mixed 1,535 395% 1,798 MB/s	4K Read 57.9 4K Write 110 4K Mixed 31.3 186% 66.5 MB/s	DQ Read 56.7 DQ Write 123 DQ Mixed 31.7 41% 70.4 MB/s
Poor: 160% ↑ This bench: 238% Great: 280%
Seagate Desktop SSHD 2TB-$90 94,145 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 1.5TB free Firmware: CC41 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 117 99 130218072 (03) Spinup time 96 94 0 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1129 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 75 60 30353581520 (09) Power-on hours count 93 93 6884 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1140 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 98 60131573792 (BD) vendor-specific 94 94 6 (BE) vendor-specific 54 43 1572799512622 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 27 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 99 99 2245 (C2) HDA temperature 46 57 73014444078 (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 -103972568292007 (F1) Unknown 100 253 92121994436 (F2) Unknown 100 253 706868936272	107% Outstanding	Read 185 Write 187 Mixed 138 127% 170 MB/s	4K Read 0.74 4K Write 5.3 4K Mixed 0.67 203% 2.23 MB/s
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 107% Great: 108%
Seagate Expansion Desk 2TB 12,762 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 282GB free Firmware: 0711 Performing as expected (47^th percentile)	65.7% Good	Read 116 Write 113 Mixed 105 84% 111 MB/s	4K Read 0.81 4K Write 1.54 4K Mixed 0.29 94% 0.88 MB/s
Poor: 16% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 104%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GB-$46 47,721 User benchmarks, average bench 69% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (80^th percentile)	74.8% Very good	MC Read 26.9 MC Write 28.3 MC Mixed 23.5 75% 26.2 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 29.3 SC Mixed 23.3 66% 23.2 GB/s	Latency 65.2 61% 65.2 ns
Poor: 42% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 80%

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System Memory Latency Ladder

L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Gaming 11%

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Desktop 69%

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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: Asus H170M-PLUS - $296

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	321x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	280x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	140x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	136x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	104x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	73x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	30x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	58x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	42x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	31x

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Value: 54% - Above average

Total price: $701

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $132	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