Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 84% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 97% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 72% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (72nd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 28 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 typical workstation, and even moderate server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 98.4%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is excellent.
Graphics	82.6% 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	73% is a good SSD score. This drive enables fast boots, responsive applications and ensures minimum system 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 7 is still a viable option, it's now 14 years and 10 months old. This system should be upgraded to Windows 10 which is generally faster and has an improved set of core utilities including better versions of explorer and task manager.

Very high background CPU (37%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

8 years ago, 8 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	13 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.4 GHz
Display	2560 x 1440 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 7
BIOS Date	20160307
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jun 03 '16 at 21:25
Run Duration	107 Seconds
Run User	ISR-User
Background CPU	37%

PC Performing above expectations (72^nd 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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz Performing way above expectations (100^th percentile)	98.4% Outstanding	Memory 95.5 1-Core 139 2-Core 281 95% 172 Pts	4-Core 546 8-Core 778 83% 662 Pts	64-Core 779 48% 779 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 98.4% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 980-Ti-$560 214,030 User benchmarks, average bench 79% EVGA(3842 4993) ≥ 4GB Driver: nvd3dumx.dll Ver. 10.18.13.6519 Performing below potential (80^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	82.6% Excellent	Lighting 105 Reflection 102 Parallax 99.4 86% 102 fps	MRender 94.4 Gravity 96.5 Splatting 89.4 76% 93.4 fps
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 82.6% Great: 87%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Sandis S2128G 128GB 11 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 81GB free (System drive) Firmware: X211 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^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 253 100 8954 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 1369 (A7) Unknown 100 100 16 (A8) Unknown 100 100 269 (A9) Unknown 100 100 128 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 150 (AE) Unknown 100 100 224 (B8) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 66 47 201864445986 (D4) Unknown 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1280 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 1280 (F1) Unknown 253 253 11068857796 (F2) Unknown 253 253 18152711302 (F3) Unknown 100 100 0	73% Very good	Read 446 Write 202 Mixed 230 64% 293 MB/s	4K Read 28.5 4K Write 99.8 4K Mixed 17.9 119% 48.7 MB/s	DQ Read 233 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 45.3 72% 141 MB/s
Poor: 65% ↑ This bench: 73% Great: 79%
WD WD1003FZEX-00MK2 1TB 602 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 402GB free Firmware: 01.0 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (55^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 174 173 2275 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 225 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1207 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 217 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 25 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 199 (C2) HDA temperature 105 89 38 (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	83.4% Excellent	Read 147 Write 143 Mixed 135 107% 142 MB/s	4K Read 1.23 4K Write 2.65 4K Mixed 0.37 141% 1.41 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 83.4% Great: 103%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GB 122,822 User benchmarks, average bench 76% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2400 MHz Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	81.5% Excellent	MC Read 30.9 MC Write 31.3 MC Mixed 22.8 81% 28.3 GB/s	SC Read 19.5 SC Write 32.5 SC Mixed 25.2 74% 25.7 GB/s	Latency 55.5 72% 55.5 ns
Poor: 53% ↑ This bench: 81.5% Great: 90%

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

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Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,717x
Core i5-6600KIntel $64Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,720x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,061x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,197x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,391x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,268x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	900x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	799x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	326x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	823x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	575x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	563x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $888

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $174	Nvidia RTX 4060 $293	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $120	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $549	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $45	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16