Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 34% Sail boat	Desktop 88% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 31% Sail boat


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (48th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 52 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 81.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	34.6% is a below average 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can handle older games but it will struggle to render recent games at resolutions greater than 1080p. (Note: general computing tasks don't require 3D graphics)
Boot Drive	56.8% is a reasonable SSD score. This drive enables fast boots and responsive applications.
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 (19%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.7 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170623
Uptime	0.2 Days
Run Date	Jun 24 '18 at 09:04
Run Duration	198 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	19%

PC Performing as expected (48^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 as expected (57^th percentile)	81.7% Excellent	Memory 84.4 1-Core 127 2-Core 254 86% 155 Pts	4-Core 426 8-Core 657 67% 541 Pts	64-Core 704 44% 704 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 81.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 960-$198 440,282 User benchmarks, average bench 33% Asus(1043 856B) ≥ 4GB CLim: 1519 MHz, MLim: 1752 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 398.11 Performing way above expectations (91^st percentile)	34.6% Below average	Lighting 44.8 Reflection 44.7 Parallax 38.2 36% 42.6 fps	MRender 37.4 Gravity 40.2 Splatting 36.2 31% 37.9 fps
Poor: 30% ↑ This bench: 34.6% Great: 36%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 250GB-$45 240,629 User benchmarks, average bench 199% 36GB free Firmware: 3B7Q Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way below expectations (1^st percentile)	105% Outstanding	Read 799 Write 544 Mixed 595 143% 646 MB/s	4K Read 43 4K Write 65.6 4K Mixed 21.7 128% 43.4 MB/s	DQ Read 44.7 DQ Write 87.5 DQ Mixed 69.4 52% 67.2 MB/s
Poor: 142% ↑ This bench: 105% Great: 236%
Transcend SSD370 128GB-$74 4,687 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 19GB free (System drive) Firmware: N1114B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (11^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 100 100 940 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 2003 (A0) Unknown 100 100 0 (A1) Unknown 100 100 44 (A3) Unknown 100 100 25 (A4) Unknown 100 100 149280 (A5) Unknown 100 100 194 (A6) Unknown 100 100 91 (A7) Unknown 100 100 146 (A8) Unknown 100 100 3000 (A9) Unknown 100 100 96 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 100 100 433 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 153 (C2) HDA temperature 100 100 0 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 47919 (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 3 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (F1) Unknown 100 100 391896 (F2) Unknown 100 100 320482 (F5) Unknown 100 100 597120	56.8% Above average	Read 494 Write 150 Mixed 232 64% 292 MB/s	4K Read 23 4K Write 59.8 4K Mixed 16.4 88% 33.1 MB/s	DQ Read 24.9 DQ Write 65.7 DQ Mixed 21.4 23% 37.3 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 56.8% Great: 83%
Samsung HD502HI 500GB-$154 24,344 User benchmarks, average bench 46% 459GB free Firmware: 1AG01113 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing way above expectations (98^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 99 0 (03) Spinup time 93 93 3080 (04) Start/Stop count 92 92 7689 (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 98 98 11095 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 1 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 14 (0C) Power cycle count 96 96 4502 (0D) Soft read error rate 100 99 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 7 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 3 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 79 59 370475029 (C2) HDA temperature 77 49 387186711 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 496063 (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 99 1 (C9) Soft read error rate 253 253 0	60.9% Good	Read 107 Write 105 Mixed 105 80% 106 MB/s	4K Read 0.51 4K Write 1.71 4K Mixed 0.39 96% 0.87 MB/s
Poor: 26% ↑ This bench: 60.9% Great: 59%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 364GB free Firmware: CC4B Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (22^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 110 99 26755928 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 93 93 7893 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 74 60 28290657 (09) Power-on hours count 90 90 9159 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 97 97 3406 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (BD) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 67 52 555352097 (BF) G-sense error rate 100 100 0 (C0) Power-off retract count 100 100 278 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 77 77 46942 (C2) HDA temperature 33 48 25769803809 (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 36129264897172 (F1) Unknown 100 253 56660278421809 (F2) Unknown 100 253 102598109574821	75.9% Very good	Read 139 Write 126 Mixed 144 103% 136 MB/s	4K Read 0.64 4K Write 1.39 4K Mixed 0.29 85% 0.77 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 75.9% Great: 112%
WD Green 1TB (2010)-$139 139,542 User benchmarks, average bench 44% 215GB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 2.0 300 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 190 175 6491 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4350 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 95 95 4283 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 2426 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 203 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 189 189 35864 (C2) HDA temperature 118 98 29 (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	50.3% Above average	Read 89.1 Write 86 Mixed 61.9 59% 79 MB/s	4K Read 0.44 4K Write 1.31 4K Mixed 0.11 55% 0.62 MB/s
Poor: 29% ↑ This bench: 50.3% Great: 59%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	74.5% Very good	MC Read 27 MC Write 28.7 MC Mixed 23.3 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 17 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 23.2 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 72.8 55% 72.8 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 74.5% Great: 104%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,655x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,687x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,049x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,176x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,385x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,255x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	891x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	791x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $139Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	323x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	815x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	570x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	561x

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Total price: $755

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	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 $163	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) $31	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