Asus H170M-PLUS

Performance Results


Gaming 16% Surfboard	Desktop 85% Aircraft carrier	Workstation 15% Surfboard


PC Status	Overall this PC is performing above expectations (63rd percentile). This means that out of 100 PCs with exactly the same components, 37 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 87.8%, this CPU's suitability for 3D gaming is very good.
Graphics	9.08% is a very low 3D score (RTX 2060S = 100%). This GPU can only handle very basic 3D games but it's fine for general computing tasks.
Boot Drive	234% 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.

Run History

6 years ago, 6 years ago, 6 years ago.

Motherboard	Asus H170M-PLUS (all builds)
Memory	28 GB free of 32 GB @ 2.1 GHz
Display	1920 x 1080 - 32 Bit colors
OS	Windows 10
BIOS Date	20160215
Uptime	0 Days
Run Date	Sep 25 '17 at 02:56
Run Duration	135 Seconds
Run User	AUS-User
Background CPU	2%

PC Performing above expectations (63^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 way above expectations (100^th percentile)	87.8% Excellent	Memory 89.7 1-Core 120 2-Core 235 84% 148 Pts	4-Core 465 8-Core 653 70% 559 Pts	64-Core 653 40% 653 Pts
Poor: 60% ↑ This bench: 87.8% Great: 80%

Graphics Card	Bench	3D DX9	3D DX10	3D DX11
Nvidia GTX 650-$112 69,673 User benchmarks, average bench 8% Asus(1043 8428) 1GB CLim: 1058 MHz, MLim: 1250 MHz, Ram: 1GB, Driver: 382.5 Performing way above expectations (92^nd percentile)	9.08% Terrible	Lighting 10.2 Reflection 9.42 Parallax 11.7 8% 10.4 fps	MRender 13.6 Gravity 12.2 Splatting 13.1 11% 13 fps
Poor: 8% ↑ This bench: 9.08% Great: 9%

Drives	Bench	Sequential	Random 4k	Deep queue 4k
Samsung 960 Evo NVMe PCIe M.2 1TB-$150 38,097 User benchmarks, average bench 241% 640GB free (System drive) Firmware: 2B7QCXE7 Max speed: PCIe 16,000 MB/s Performing as expected (41^st percentile)	234% Outstanding	Read 1,815 Write 1,403 Mixed 1,218 328% 1,479 MB/s	4K Read 46.2 4K Write 118 4K Mixed 45.2 190% 69.7 MB/s	DQ Read 470 DQ Write 360 DQ Mixed 27.8 126% 286 MB/s
Poor: 157% ↑ This bench: 234% Great: 302%
Samsung 850 Evo 500GB-$90 695,664 User benchmarks, average bench 112% 219GB free Firmware: EMT02B6Q Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing below expectations (27^th percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (05) Reallocated sector count 100 100 0 (09) Power-on hours count 99 99 3666 (0C) Power cycle count 98 98 1524 (B1) Unknown 99 99 5 (B3) Unknown 100 100 0 (B5) Unknown 100 100 0 (B6) Unknown 100 100 0 (B7) Unknown 100 100 0 (BB) vendor-specific 100 100 0 (BE) vendor-specific 68 60 32 (C3) Hardware ECC recovered 200 200 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 100 100 0 (EB) Unknown 99 99 31 (F1) Unknown 99 99 6640856662	102% Outstanding	Read 501 Write 404 Mixed 415 98% 440 MB/s	4K Read 38.5 4K Write 91.3 4K Mixed 46.7 166% 58.8 MB/s	DQ Read 30.2 DQ Write 246 DQ Mixed 121 98% 132 MB/s
Poor: 80% ↑ This bench: 102% Great: 134%
WD Blue 3TB (2015)-$80 75,644 User benchmarks, average bench 71% 2.5TB free Firmware: 80.00A80 Max speed: SATA 3.0 600 MB/s Performing as expected (53^rd percentile) (ID) Attribute Now Worst Value (01) Raw read error rate 200 200 0 (03) Spinup time 180 177 5975 (04) Start/Stop count 99 99 1451 (05) Reallocated sector count 200 200 0 (07) Seek error rate 100 253 0 (09) Power-on hours count 96 96 3533 (0A) Spinup retry count 100 100 0 (0B) Calibration retry count 100 100 0 (0C) Power cycle count 99 99 1451 (C0) Power-off retract count 200 200 15 (C1) Load/Unload cycle count 197 197 11669 (C2) HDA temperature 118 108 32 (C4) Reallocation count 200 200 0 (C5) Current pending sector count 200 200 0 (C6) Offline scan uncorrectable count 100 253 0 (C7) UDMA CRC error rate 200 200 0 (C8) Write error rate 100 253 0	70.7% Very good	Read 132 Write 115 Mixed 104 88% 117 MB/s	4K Read 0.83 4K Write 0.39 4K Mixed 0.28 72% 0.5 MB/s
Poor: 46% ↑ This bench: 70.7% Great: 96%

Memory Kit	Bench	Multi core	Single core	Latency
Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 2400 C14 2x16GB 8,488 User benchmarks, average bench 73% 2 of 4 slots used 32GB DIMM DDR4 clocked @ 2133 MHz Performing above expectations (64^th percentile)	74.8% Very good	MC Read 27.3 MC Write 28.5 MC Mixed 23.2 75% 26.3 GB/s	SC Read 17.4 SC Write 29.1 SC Mixed 22.8 66% 23.1 GB/s	Latency 67.6 59% 67.6 ns
Poor: 43% ↑ This bench: 74.8% Great: 89%

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Workstation 11%

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Motherboard: Asus H170M-PLUS - $296

CPU
Core i7-6700Intel $180Bench 72%, 282,363 samples	321x
Core i5-6500Intel $67Bench 64%, 241,476 samples	283x
Core i5-6400Intel $79Bench 61%, 171,457 samples	140x

GPU
HD 530 (Desktop Skylake)IntelBench 5%, 188,220 samples	137x
GTX 1060-6GBNvidia $117Bench 56%, 1,368,019 samples	105x
GTX 1070Nvidia $132Bench 80%, 1,459,281 samples	74x

SSD
850 Evo 250GBSamsung $100Bench 103%, 951,591 samples	51x
A400 240GBKingston $28Bench 66%, 424,288 samples	30x
860 Evo 500GBSamsung $80Bench 105%, 762,998 samples	26x

RAM
Fury DDR4 2133 C14 2x8GBHyperX $125Bench 73%, 59,072 samples	59x
HyperX 2133 C14 2x8GBKingstonBench 68%, 49,673 samples	43x
Vengeance LPX DDR4 2133 C13 2x8GBCorsair $46Bench 69%, 47,721 samples	31x

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Value: 54% - Above average

Total price: $701

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) $31	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $37	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16