Asus H170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results

Benchmarks - missing SSD
Gaming 61% Destroyer	Desktop 80% Battleship	Workstation 48% Yacht


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing below expectations (30th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 70 performed better. The overall PC percentile is the average of each of its individual components. Use the charts in the benchmark sections of this report to identify problem areas.
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 very light workstation, and even some very light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 76.9%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	80.2% 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	The boot partition is located on a mechanical or hybrid drive. Moving the system to an SSD will yield far faster boot times, better system responsiveness and faster application load 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

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

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus H170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	9.5 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	2560 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160919
Uptime	2 Days
Run Date	Oct 30 '20 at 01:47
Run Duration	119 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	37%

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PC Performing below expectations (30^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-7600K-$170 195,006 User benchmarks, average bench 76% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4 GHz (avg) Performing as expected (54^th percentile)	76.9% Very good	Memory 81.8 1-Core 114 2-Core 241 80% 146 Pts	4-Core 410 8-Core 441 56% 426 Pts	64-Core 438 27% 438 Pts
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 76.9% Great: 89%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% EVGA(3842 6173) CLim: 1999 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 456.71 Performing below potential (58^th percentile) - GPU OC Guide	80.2% Excellent	Lighting 98.2 Reflection 111 Parallax 95.8 80% 102 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 94.9 Splatting 102 81% 97.9 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 80.2% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k
Hitachi HDT721010SLA360 1TB-$69 27,212 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 86GB free (System drive) Firmware: ST6OA3AA SusWrite @10s intervals: 52 58 42 55 64 55 MB/s Performing way below expectations (6^th percentile)	31.4% Below average	Read 55.1 Write 21 Mixed 30.2 SusWrite 54.2 30% 40.1 MB/s	4K Read 0.3 4K Write 1 4K Mixed 0.4 76% 0.57 MB/s
Poor: 31% ↑ This bench: 31.4% Great: 61%
WD Blue 1TB (2015)-$40 52,322 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 52GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 SusWrite @10s intervals: 77 68 68 86 94 92 MB/s Performing way below expectations (13^th percentile)	52.1% Above average	Read 100 Write 96.7 Mixed 64.6 SusWrite 81.1 63% 85.6 MB/s	4K Read 1.1 4K Write 2.1 4K Mixed 1 196% 1.4 MB/s
Poor: 45% ↑ This bench: 52.1% Great: 87%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
PNY 8GBF2X04HEEE35-12-K 2x8GB 415 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (19^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.6% Good	MC Read 20.9 MC Write 26.1 MC Mixed 23.8 67% 23.6 GB/s	SC Read 13.3 SC Write 21.7 SC Mixed 18.6 51% 17.9 GB/s	Latency 77.2 52% 77.2 ns
Poor: 41% ↑ This bench: 65.6% Great: 80%

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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 H170 PRO GAMING Builds (Compare 2,083 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 61%

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Desktop 79%

Battleship

Workstation 52%

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Motherboard: Asus H170 PRO GAMING - $130

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	457x
Core i5-6500Intel $60Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	370x
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	329x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	232x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	215x
GTX 970Nvidia $200Bench 49%, 834,238 samples	186x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	136x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $85Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	73x
970 Evo Plus NVMe PCIe M.2 1TBSamsung $93Bench 310%, 455,997 samples	38x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	123x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	91x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	85x

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Value: 60% - Above average

Total price: $803

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-12600K $170	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 $550	Samsung 870 Evo 250GB $45

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $29	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