Asus Z170 PRO GAMING AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 87% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 90% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 70% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (78th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 22 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 84.5%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
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	117% 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	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.

Run History

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

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING AURA (all builds)
Memory	26.8 GB free of 32 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160831
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Dec 02 '18 at 20:01
Run Duration	124 Seconds
Run User	GBR-User
Background CPU	5%

PC Performing above expectations (78^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	84.5% Excellent	Memory 84.7 1-Core 131 2-Core 265 88% 160 Pts	4-Core 479 8-Core 522 66% 501 Pts	64-Core 493 30% 493 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 84.5% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-Ti-$299 412,133 User benchmarks, average bench 94% MSI(1462 C303) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 388.13 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	102% Outstanding	Lighting 134 Reflection 139 Parallax 121 109% 131 fps	MRender 98.6 Gravity 126 Splatting 106 90% 110 fps
Poor: 86% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 101%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 750 EVO 500GB 31,052 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 178GB free (System drive) Firmware: MAT01B6Q SusWrite @10s intervals: 400 301 325 327 280 188 MB/s Performing way above expectations (85^th percentile)	117% Outstanding	Read 490 Write 471 Mixed 330 SusWrite 303 89% 399 MB/s	4K Read 42.7 4K Write 115 4K Mixed 58.3 200% 71.9 MB/s	DQ Read 384 DQ Write 344 DQ Mixed 339 261% 355 MB/s
Poor: 77% ↑ This bench: 117% Great: 123%
Toshiba DT01ACA200 2TB-$40 344,862 User benchmarks, average bench 86% 2TB free Firmware: MX4OABB0 SusWrite @10s intervals: 189 188 188 189 186 190 MB/s Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	106% Outstanding	Read 183 Write 173 Mixed 22.2 SusWrite 188 102% 142 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.2 4K Mixed 0.6 153% 1.3 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 106% Great: 108%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Kingston HyperX 2133 C14 4x8GB 3,576 User benchmarks, average bench 75% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (23^rd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	67.5% Good	MC Read 24.1 MC Write 25.5 MC Mixed 22 68% 23.9 GB/s	SC Read 15.5 SC Write 25.2 SC Mixed 19.7 58% 20.1 GB/s	Latency 72.3 55% 72.3 ns
Poor: 62% ↑ This bench: 67.5% Great: 99%

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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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Typical Z170 PRO GAMING AURA Builds (Compare 26 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 51%

Yacht

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 43%

Speed boat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	18x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	4x
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	3x

GPU
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	4x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	3x
RTX 2070S (Super)Nvidia $210Bench 115%, 663,603 samples	3x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	3x
850 Pro 2TBSamsung $320Bench 108%, 2,669 samples	2x
SSDNow UV400 240GBKingston $89Bench 71%, 105,079 samples	2x

RAM
HyperX DDR4 2666 C13 2x8GBKingstonBench 80%, 2,810 samples	11x
HyperX DDR4 2666 C13 4x8GBKingstonBench 93%, 743 samples	3x
HyperX 3000 C15 2x16GBKingstonBench 88%, 10,048 samples	3x

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Value: 78% - Very good

Total price: $396

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	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 $175	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) $23	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