Asus Z170-PRO

Performance Results


Gaming 91% Nuclear submarine	Desktop 81% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 77% Battleship


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing as expected (43rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 57 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 75.1%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is good.
Graphics	120% 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	194% 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.

Very high background CPU (38%). High background CPU reduces benchmark accuracy. How to reduce background CPU.

Run History

3 years ago, 3 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus Z170-PRO (all builds)
Memory	23 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	3840 x 2160 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20161129
Uptime	1.2 Days
Run Date	Apr 08 '21 at 17:08
Run Duration	159 Seconds
Run User	USA-User
Background CPU	38%

PC Performing as expected (43^rd 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 (70^th percentile)	75.1% Very good	Memory 81 1-Core 98.4 2-Core 192 71% 124 Pts	4-Core 373 8-Core 562 58% 467 Pts	64-Core 568 35% 568 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 75.1% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia Titan X Pascal-$286 8,692 User benchmarks, average bench 121% Nvidia(10DE 119A) CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 2502 MHz, Ram: 12GB, Driver: 461.40 Performing below potential (43^rd percentile) - GPU OC Guide	120% Outstanding	Lighting 163 Reflection 174 Parallax 168 133% 168 fps	MRender 124 Gravity 166 Splatting 117 109% 136 fps
Poor: 108% ↑ This bench: 120% Great: 132%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GB-$625 54,978 User benchmarks, average bench 223% 88GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B0QBXX7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s SusWrite @10s intervals: 786 1098 1126 455 394 381 MB/s Performing below expectations (24^th percentile)	194% Outstanding	Read 1,759 Write 1,414 Mixed 742 SusWrite 707 257% 1,156 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 96.2 4K Mixed 47.5 170% 60.7 MB/s	DQ Read 886 DQ Write 392 DQ Mixed 439 378% 572 MB/s
Poor: 138% ↑ This bench: 194% Great: 283%
Microsoft Storage Space Device 2TB 2,797 User benchmarks, average bench 103% 668GB free Firmware: 0.1 SusWrite @10s intervals: 276 351 385 425 428 432 MB/s Performing as expected (56^th percentile)	108% Outstanding	Read 461 Write 296 Mixed 390 SusWrite 383 86% 383 MB/s	4K Read 37.7 4K Write 85 4K Mixed 47.6 163% 56.8 MB/s	DQ Read 361 DQ Write 321 DQ Mixed 347 258% 343 MB/s
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 108% Great: 134%
WD easystore 25FB 8TB 7,734 User benchmarks, average bench 62% 3.5TB free, PID 25fb Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 39 37 41 35 39 45 MB/s Performing way below expectations (17^th percentile)	32.8% Below average	Read 125 Write 92.9 Mixed 75.3 SusWrite 39.2 104% 83.2 MB/s	4K Read 1.2 4K Write 1.9 4K Mixed 0.6 90% 1.23 MB/s
Poor: 22% ↑ This bench: 32.8% Great: 86%
WD My Book 1230 6TB 1,283 User benchmarks, average bench 48% 3.5TB free, PID 1230 Operating at USB 3.0 Speed SusWrite @10s intervals: 130 138 138 137 138 137 MB/s Performing above expectations (83^rd percentile)	60.5% Good	Read 149 Write 148 Mixed 87.8 SusWrite 136 174% 130 MB/s	4K Read 1 4K Write 2.9 4K Mixed 1 136% 1.63 MB/s
Poor: 18% ↑ This bench: 60.5% Great: 68%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2666 C16 4x8GB-$92 8,498 User benchmarks, average bench 85% 4 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing below potential (10^th percentile) - ensure that a dual+ channel XMP BIOS profile is enabled: How to enable XMP	65.8% Good	MC Read 23.9 MC Write 24.4 MC Mixed 21.8 67% 23.4 GB/s	SC Read 13.5 SC Write 24.8 SC Mixed 20.3 56% 19.5 GB/s	Latency 78.6 51% 78.6 ns
Poor: 63% ↑ This bench: 65.8% Great: 113%

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L1/L2/L3 CPU cache and main memory (DIMM) access latencies in nano seconds

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Typical Z170-PRO Builds (Compare 957 builds) See popular component choices, score breakdowns and rankings

Gaming 69%

Battle cruiser

Desktop 87%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 58%

Gunboat

Motherboard: Asus Z170-PRO - $210

CPU
Core i7-6700KIntel $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	513x
Core i5-6600KIntel $81Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	125x
Core i7-7700KIntel $241Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	78x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	169x
GTX 1080Nvidia $400Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	105x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	71x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $109Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	62x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	55x
950 NVMe PCIe M.2 512GBSamsung $625Bench 223%, 54,978 samples	23x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $43Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	69x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $45Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	55x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x16GBCorsair $560Bench 84%, 34,441 samples	34x

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Value: 96% - Outstanding

Total price: $674

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	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) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16