Asus Z170 PRO GAMING

Performance Results


Gaming 78% Battleship	Desktop 89% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 67% Battle cruiser


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (67th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 33 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 86.2%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	87.9% 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	61.9% 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 10 is not the most recent version of Windows, it remains a great option.

Sub-optimal background CPU (13%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago, 7 years ago. (Only the first run influences device rankings)

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING (all builds)
Memory	11.6 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1200 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160513
Uptime	4 Days
Run Date	May 10 '17 at 22:35
Run Duration	144 Seconds
Run User	FRA-User
Background CPU	13%

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PC Performing above expectations (67^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 GHz (avg) Performing above expectations (84^th percentile)	86.2% Excellent	Memory 91.5 1-Core 127 2-Core 238 86% 152 Pts	4-Core 436 8-Core 667 68% 551 Pts	64-Core 691 43% 691 Pts
Poor: 70% ↑ This bench: 86.2% Great: 90%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$278 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% MSI(1462 3302) CLim: 1987 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 378.78 Performing way above expectations (97^th percentile)	87.9% Excellent	Lighting 111 Reflection 115 Parallax 99 91% 108 fps	MRender 97.5 Gravity 102 Splatting 102 82% 101 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 87.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
SanDisk SSD Plus 240GB-$30 133,640 User benchmarks, average bench 61% 104GB free Firmware: Z32080RL Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (82^nd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 0 100 1037 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 183 (A5) Unknown 100 100 21540438759 (A6) Unknown 100 100 1 (A7) Unknown 100 100 0 (A8) Unknown 100 100 5 (A9) Unknown 100 100 0 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AD) Unknown 100 100 2 (AE) Unknown 100 100 15 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BC) Unknown 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 60 44 240518168616 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (E6) GMR head amplitude 100 100 1060859347191 (E8) Unknown 100 100 100 (E9) Unknown 100 100 634 (EA) Unknown 100 100 6952 (F1) Unknown 253 253 740 (F2) Unknown 253 253 977 (F4) Unknown 0 100 0	78.3% Very good	Read 505 Write 411 Mixed 347 93% 421 MB/s	4K Read 24.6 4K Write 75.3 4K Mixed 5.73 84% 35.2 MB/s	DQ Read 164 DQ Write 270 DQ Mixed 3.18 62% 146 MB/s
Poor: 35% ↑ This bench: 78.3% Great: 86%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 120GB-$35 80,916 User benchmarks, average bench 67% 31GB free (System drive) Firmware: 0C3FD6SD Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (28^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 4 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 1934 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 277 (64) Unknown 100 100 2762704 (65) Unknown 100 100 493840 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 19 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 95 95 1644 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 709 (B7) Unknown 98 98 23 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 29 100 1009318166557 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 4 (C4) Reallocation count 100 100 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 100 100 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (C9) Soft read error rate 100 100 0 (CC) Soft ECC correction 100 100 4 (E7) Temperature 96 96 4 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5132 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2765 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4224 (F2) Unknown 100 100 2248 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 4	61.9% Good	Read 475 Write 190 Mixed 224 65% 296 MB/s	4K Read 30.1 4K Write 52.7 4K Mixed 10.2 87% 31 MB/s	DQ Read 158 DQ Write 145 DQ Mixed 19.7 51% 108 MB/s
Poor: 44% ↑ This bench: 61.9% Great: 82%
WD Blue 1TB (2012)-$28 3,105,054 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 662GB free Firmware: 01.01A01 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing above expectations (71^st percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 172 167 2400 (04) Start/Stop count 100 100 281 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 200 200 0 (09) Power-on hours count 98 98 1933 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 281 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 7 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 200 200 1516 (C2) HDA temperature 109 102 34 (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	93.8% Outstanding	Read 175 Write 152 Mixed 141 117% 156 MB/s	4K Read 0.71 4K Write 2.11 4K Mixed 0.28 100% 1.04 MB/s
Poor: 52% ↑ This bench: 93.8% Great: 109%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$48 606,405 User benchmarks, average bench 82% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (36^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	73.7% Very good	MC Read 26.6 MC Write 27.5 MC Mixed 23.3 74% 25.8 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 28.6 SC Mixed 22.9 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 65 62% 65 ns
Poor: 58% ↑ This bench: 73.7% Great: 104%

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Desktop 87%

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Workstation 58%

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Motherboard: Asus Z170 PRO GAMING - $295

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $170Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	6,703x
Core i5-6600KIntel $113Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	3,712x
Core i7-6700Intel $170Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	1,058x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $278Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	2,194x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	1,389x
GTX 1080Nvidia $195Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	1,265x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	897x
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	796x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $140Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	325x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $48Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	822x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	573x
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	563x

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Value: 72% - Very good

Total price: $891

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 $361	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-13600K $260	Nvidia RTX 4070 $550	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