Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA

Performance Results


Gaming 77% Battleship	Desktop 90% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 61% Destroyer


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (68th percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 32 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 light workstation, and even some light server workloads. Finally, with a gaming score of 85.3%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	86.9% 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	100% is a very good SSD score. This drive is suitable for moderate workstation use, it will facilitate fast boots, responsive applications and ensure minimum 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.

Run History

Motherboard	Asus Z170 PRO GAMING/AURA (all builds)
Memory	14.1 GB free of 16 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20170315
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 12 '17 at 17:51
Run Duration	112 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	4%

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PC Performing above expectations (68^th percentile)

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

Processor	Bench	Normal	Heavy	Server
Intel Core i5-6600K-$130 342,244 User benchmarks, average bench 72% LGA1151, 1 CPU, 4 cores, 4 threads Base clock 3.5 GHz, turbo 3.6 GHz (avg) Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	85.3% Excellent	Memory 89.4 1-Core 123 2-Core 238 85% 150 Pts	4-Core 469 8-Core 468 63% 469 Pts	64-Core 470 29% 470 Pts
Poor: 57% ↑ This bench: 85.3% Great: 85%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 1070-$132 1,459,281 User benchmarks, average bench 80% Asus(1043 8599) CLim: 2037 MHz, MLim: 2002 MHz, Ram: 8GB, Driver: 382.33 Performing way above expectations (95^th percentile)	86.9% Excellent	Lighting 110 Reflection 112 Parallax 92.6 90% 105 fps	MRender 96.5 Gravity 101 Splatting 100 81% 99.1 fps
Poor: 71% ↑ This bench: 86.9% Great: 88%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Intel 600p Series NVMe PCIe M.2 128GB-$98 11,843 User benchmarks, average bench 98% 71GB free (System drive) Firmware: PSF121C Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing way above expectations (89^th percentile)	100% Outstanding	Read 703 Write 315 Mixed 441 107% 486 MB/s	4K Read 33.9 4K Write 130 4K Mixed 22.2 149% 62.1 MB/s	DQ Read 117 DQ Write 315 DQ Mixed 21.9 72% 151 MB/s
Poor: 59% ↑ This bench: 100% Great: 107%
Kingston SSDNow UV400 240GB-$89 105,079 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 19GB free Firmware: 96R9 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing way below expectations (16^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 100 100 189 (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 100 100 4040 (0C) Power cycle count 100 100 346 (64) Unknown 100 100 3093728 (65) Unknown 100 100 481600 (AA) Unknown 100 100 0 (AB) Unknown 100 100 0 (AC) Unknown 100 100 0 (AE) Unknown 100 100 37 (AF) Unknown 100 100 0 (B0) Unknown 100 100 0 (B1) Unknown 98 98 912 (B2) Unknown 100 100 0 (B4) Unknown 100 100 1337 (B7) Unknown 98 98 11 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (C2) HDA temperature 24 100 176094445592 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 100 100 189 (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 100 100 189 (E7) Temperature 98 98 2 (E9) Unknown 100 100 5543 (EA) Unknown 100 100 2572 (F1) Unknown 100 100 4224 (F2) Unknown 100 100 7104 (FA) Read error retry rate 100 100 189	59.7% Above average	Read 474 Write 247 Mixed 260 72% 327 MB/s	4K Read 29.8 4K Write 50.1 4K Mixed 9.75 84% 29.9 MB/s	DQ Read 30.8 DQ Write 50 DQ Mixed 9.18 16% 30 MB/s
Poor: 49% ↑ This bench: 59.7% Great: 88%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LED DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB-$192 40,358 User benchmarks, average bench 83% 2 of 4 slots used 16GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing as expected (45^th percentile)	78.7% Very good	MC Read 28.7 MC Write 30.2 MC Mixed 25.4 80% 28.1 GB/s	SC Read 17.1 SC Write 28.4 SC Mixed 23.4 66% 23 GB/s	Latency 67.9 59% 67.9 ns
Poor: 54% ↑ This bench: 78.7% Great: 105%

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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 $180Bench 81%, 588,978 samples	785x
Core i5-6600KIntel $130Bench 72%, 342,244 samples	284x
Core i7-7700KIntel $230Bench 84%, 712,312 samples	117x

GPU
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	364x
GTX 1080Nvidia $245Bench 102%, 1,082,454 samples	170x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	143x

SSD
850 Evo 500GBSamsung $94Bench 112%, 695,664 samples	81x
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	75x
860 Evo 1TBSamsung $130Bench 112%, 602,853 samples	45x

RAM
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GBCorsair $40Bench 85%, 653,654 samples	65x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GBCorsair $37Bench 82%, 606,405 samples	61x
HyperX 2400 C15 2x8GBKingstonBench 76%, 122,822 samples	34x

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Value: 100% - Outstanding

Total price: $447

CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $254	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $39
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $163	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

HDD	RAM	USB
Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $79	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16