Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 99% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 91% Nuclear submarine	Workstation 85% Aircraft carrier


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (60th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 40 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 moderate workstation, and even light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 86.7%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	114% 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	164% 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	64GB is enough RAM to run any version of Windows and it's far more than any current game requires. 64GB 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

7 years ago, 7 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	56 GB free of 64 GB @ 1.9 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	42.3 Days
Run Date	Feb 04 '17 at 04:30
Run Duration	166 Seconds
Run User	CAN-User
Background CPU	6%

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PC Performing above expectations (60^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-$170 588,978 User benchmarks, average bench 81% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 8 threads Base clock 4 GHz, turbo 4.1 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	86.7% Excellent	Memory 82.5 1-Core 133 2-Core 260 87% 159 Pts	4-Core 489 8-Core 722 75% 605 Pts	64-Core 726 45% 726 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.7% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1080-$195 1,082,454 User benchmarks, average bench 102% EVGA(3842 6286) CLim: 2025 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 376.53 Performing way above expectations (99^th percentile)	114% Outstanding	Lighting 154 Reflection 155 Parallax 128 126% 146 fps	MRender 117 Gravity 143 Splatting 112 100% 124 fps
Poor: 93% ↑ This bench: 114% Great: 110%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$125 20,782 User benchmarks, average bench 128% 395GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF100C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (96^th percentile)	164% Outstanding	Read 1,442 Write 531 Mixed 820 204% 931 MB/s	4K Read 22.1 4K Write 134 4K Mixed 48.9 167% 68.4 MB/s	DQ Read 508 DQ Write 452 DQ Mixed 20.8 141% 327 MB/s
Poor: 95% ↑ This bench: 164% Great: 144%
WD Blue 4TB (2015)-$85 124,615 User benchmarks, average bench 80% 3.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 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 181 173 7925 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1074 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1183 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 405 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 18 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 171 171 88600 (C2) HDA temperature 123 119 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	84.9% Excellent	Read 143 Write 152 Mixed 138 109% 144 MB/s	4K Read 0.93 4K Write 2.14 4K Mixed 0.21 102% 1.09 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 84.9% Great: 101%
WD Black 1TB (2013)-$39 240,965 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 368GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (45^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 176 173 2183 (04) Start/Stop count 96 96 4814 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 81 81 14139 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 125 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 13 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 199 199 4800 (C2) HDA temperature 117 105 26 (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	80.3% Excellent	Read 146 Write 133 Mixed 139 105% 140 MB/s	4K Read 1.12 4K Write 2.57 4K Mixed 0.36 135% 1.35 MB/s
Poor: 50% ↑ This bench: 80.3% Great: 108%
Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 1TB-$28 1,562,409 User benchmarks, average bench 89% 314GB free Firmware: CC43 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (26^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 81 65 133498520 (03) Spinup time 97 96 0 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 156 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (07) Seek error rate 63 60 2429274 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 1117 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 6 (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 73 62 504627227 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 100 100 200 (C2) HDA temperature 27 19 81604378651 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 6 1 133498520 (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 55795920143370 (F1) Unknown 100 253 1559240934 (F2) Unknown 100 253 546976904	79.2% Very good	Read 137 Write 140 Mixed 122 100% 133 MB/s	4K Read 0.68 4K Write 1.5 4K Mixed 0.3 90% 0.83 MB/s
Poor: 55% ↑ This bench: 79.2% Great: 112%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 4x16GB 330 User benchmarks, average bench 77% 4 of 4 slots used 64GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 1867 MHz Performing below potential (11^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.7% Good	MC Read 23.1 MC Write 23.9 MC Mixed 21.5 65% 22.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 25.9 SC Mixed 22 62% 21.7 GB/s	Latency 76 53% 76 ns
Poor: 64% ↑ This bench: 65.7% Great: 110%

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Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 59%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	796x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	287x
Core i7-7700KIntel $247Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	366x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	173x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	147x

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	46x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	66x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 75% - Very good

Total price: $582

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 $44

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $28	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $48	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $62	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16