Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 81% Aircraft carrier	Desktop 78% Battleship	Workstation 66% Battle cruiser


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 good single core score, this CPU can easily handle the majority of general computing tasks. Additionally this processor can handle light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 75.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	109% 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	53.4% 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.

Very high background CPU (46%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

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Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	10.4 GB free of 16 GB @ 3 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors, 2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20180516
Uptime	0.1 Days
Run Date	Jan 04 '19 at 14:11
Run Duration	139 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	46%

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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 i7-6700-$180 282,363 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 3.4 GHz, turbo 3.7 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (79^th percentile)	75.7% Very good	Memory 87.4 1-Core 96.2 2-Core 169 70% 117 Pts	4-Core 346 8-Core 528 54% 437 Pts	64-Core 522 32% 522 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.7% Great: 80%

Graphics Cards	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% Nvidia(10DE 119E) CLim: 2100 MHz, MLim: 2547 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 417.35 Performing way above expectations (93^rd percentile)	109% Outstanding	Lighting 141 Reflection 158 Parallax 135 115% 145 fps	MRender 120 Gravity 145 Splatting 119 104% 128 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 109% Great: 110%
Intel HD 530 (Desktop Skylake) 188,220 User benchmarks, average bench 5% Asus(1043 8694) 1GB Driver: igdumdim64.dll Ver. 23.20.16.4973 Performing way above expectations (94^th percentile)	6.04% Terrible	Lighting 6.53 Reflection 9.5 Parallax 6.47 5% 7.5 fps	MRender 7.1 Gravity 5.63 Splatting 12.9 7% 8.53 fps
Poor: 3% ↑ This bench: 6.04% Great: 6%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Toshiba Q300 480GB-$152 5,920 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 105GB free (System drive) Firmware: SAFM11.2 SusWrite @10s intervals: 102 29 87 71 73 99 MB/s Performing way below expectations (7^th percentile)	53.4% Above average	Read 404 Write 134 Mixed 264 SusWrite 76.8 48% 220 MB/s	4K Read 10.6 4K Write 58.2 4K Mixed 25.4 79% 31.4 MB/s	DQ Read 305 DQ Write 29.4 DQ Mixed 180 128% 172 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 53.4% Great: 99%
HGST HUS 724020ALE640 2TB 63 User benchmarks, average bench 45% 2TB free, PID 8016 Operating at USB 2.1 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 37 39 38 41 40 39 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	15.4% Very poor	Read 34 Write 34.5 Mixed 34.8 SusWrite 39 49% 35.6 MB/s	4K Read 0.6 4K Write 0.6 4K Mixed 0.3 33% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 15% ↑ This bench: 15.4% Great: 60%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
G.SKILL Trident Z RGB DDR4 3000 C16 2x8GB-$56 84,291 User benchmarks, average bench 81% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 3007 MHz Performing below potential (2^nd percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	39.8% Below average	MC Read 15 MC Write 13.7 MC Mixed 11.9 39% 13.5 GB/s	SC Read 10.4 SC Write 11.9 SC Mixed 9.4 30% 10.6 GB/s	Latency 70.1 57% 70.1 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 39.8% Great: 101%

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Typical Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA Builds (Compare 1,507 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 59%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	792x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	286x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	366x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	173x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	144x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	76x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $39Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $446

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $250	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $168	Nvidia RTX 4070 $490	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $39	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $32	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